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Although we fund a wide range of activities, there are some things we don't fund.

Find out what we fund through our mental health programme and our principles of funding. See a list of mental health funding opportunities launching in the next couple of…

Get information on the types of research that Wellcome funds in Discovery Research, including who we fund and what we don't fund.

Wellcome is to launch a new £250m fund that will place big bets on ambitious research programmes with the potential to fundamentally change science or transform health over a…

Find out what we expect of researchers and organisations we fund, and what actions we may take if a researcher or organisation does not comply with Wellcome's terms and…

Cutting-edge science impacts our lives around the world. Society should ask as many questions as possible, writes Professor Joy Y. Zhang. But framing science as '…

When making decisions based on multiple, interdependent factors, we choose based on how these factors correlate with each other and not using an ad hoc rule of thumb or…

Strep A is among the deadliest pathogens in the world – yet we’ve never prioritised making a vaccine. Emily Sohn uncovers the cost of ignoring this problem, and meets those…

Millions of people live with obesity in the UK, but the wider health risks of obesity are poorly understood. Dr Louise Hunter, a clinician and endocrinologist at the…

Global charitable foundation Wellcome announces series of successes for health thanks to long-term investments and partnerships in science as it publishes its annual report

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Exercise has been shown to improve depression, but we don’t know how it works exactly. We spoke to Professor Jonathan Roiser about his new research study that could help fill…

When Professor Henry Higgins instructed Eliza Doolittle that it was “Ay not I, O not Ow, Don’t say ‘Rine,’ say ‘Rain’”, he was drawing on years of experience as a professor…

Dr Rimona Weil, a neurologist and neuroscientist at University College London, tells us about how she's using advanced neuroimaging to better understand Parkinson's…

John Torous and his team of clinicians, data scientists and app developers don’t look like your usual research team. But out-of-the-box thinking, as he explains, might be…

Kelly Vere, Director of Technical Skills and Strategy at the University of Nottingham, explains how she's been working to build a better culture for technicians.

A roadmap to making lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatments affordable and available, particularly to those living in low- and middle-income countries. 

By driving different, creative and fresh ways of thinking, diversity – in an inclusive environment – will help us work better together.

Science will show us the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. And businesses and philanthropy can play a major role by stepping up to fund coronavirus treatments, as well as…

Why we don't support researchers funded by the tobacco industry.