Study reveals why the body clock is slow to adjust to time changes
New research in mice reveals why the body is so slow to recover from jet-lag and identifies a target for the development of drugs that could help us to adjust faster to…
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Wellcome Public Initiatives Manager (Part Time)
Salary: £30,949. 20 (Full Time Equivalent £51,582) Closing Date: Wednesday, 5 June 2024 Contract Type: Part Time - 3 days a week Wellcome is a global charitable foundation.
London museum collaboration: 'First Time Out'
What happens when you take an artefact from one collection and ask experts from another to write its story? ‘First Time Out’, a new collaboration opening on 20 January 2011…
Pandemic flu containment measures bought valuable time, Vietnam study suggests
Containment measures introduced in Vietnam to prevent the spread of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza did not succeed in halting the virus, but may have bought health services…
‘Mini liver tumours’ created in a dish for the first time
Scientists have created mini biological models of human primary liver cancers, known as organoids, in the lab for the first time. In a paper published today in Nature…
Mpox: what we know so far
Why disease surveillance and cooperation will be key to managing this outbreak and others in the future.
Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon wins the Wellcome Book Prize 2014
"It's a book everyone should read… there's no one who wouldn't be a more imaginative and understanding parent - or human being - for having done so… a wise and beautiful book…
Archives from the pioneers of modern genetics to be brought together for the first time
The Wellcome Library is to bring the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, ‘…
Why is it so hard to develop new antibiotics?
Discovering and then bringing new antibiotics to market is a tricky challenge – but one we need to solve if we want to be better protected against the growing threat of drug-…
Value people as well as papers to improve research culture
As scientists, we try to make sure our research is rigorous so that we can avoid costly errors. We should take the same approach to tackle issues in research culture, says…
Christopher Jackson
It's time to fix the antibiotic market
We need to keep developing new antibiotics to make sure we can keep protecting ourselves from ever-evolving bacteria. Governments, pharmaceutical companies and philanthropy…
Trial leads to genetically tailored diabetes treatments for first time
Quotes from Wellcome Trust researchers at the Peninsula Medical School Professor Andrew Hattersley and Dr Ewan Pearson, lead authors on the report on genetically tailored…
Brain picks out salient sounds from background noise by tracking frequency and time
New research reveals how our brains are able to pick out important sounds from the noisy world around us. The findings, published online today in the journal ‘eLife’, could…
Snakebites – it’s time to solve the world’s biggest hidden health crisis
Today, Wellcome announces an ambitious new £80 million programme to transform the way snakebite treatments are researched and delivered, to make them better, safer and more…
Mental Health Award: Finding the right treatment, for the right people, at the right time for anxiety and depression
Wellcome will fund researchers and teams who will validate markers to enable stratification in anxiety and/or depression as early as possible.
Lead applicant career stage:
- Leading a research programme
- Postdoctoral research
- Postgraduate training
- Returning to research
- Early-career researcher
- Mid-career researcher
- Established researcher
Administering organisation location:
- Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China and countries that are the target of international sanctions)
Funding duration:
Up to 5 years
Funding amount:
Up to £5 million
Strategic programme:
- Mental Health
Frequency:
One-off
Coapplicants:
Accepted
University students are at risk of depression – could peer-led interventions help, and if so, how?
Mental health problems like depression are common among university students. This research team will design, deliver and evaluate low-cost, peer-led interventions that could…
Simge Eva Dogan
Wellcome Trust initiative links science to the Olympic and Paralympic Games for everyone in 2012
How do athletes move so fast and jump so high? As the world focuses on the extraordinary feats of human performance that will take place in London next summer, the Wellcome…
Brain imaging reveals why we remain optimistic in the face of reality
For some people, the glass is always half-full. Even when a football fan’s team has lost ten matches in a row, he might still be convinced his team can reverse its run of bad…
New brain scanner allows patients to move freely for the first time
A new generation of brain scanner, that can be worn like a helmet allowing patients to move naturally whilst being scanned, has been developed by researchers at the Sir Peter…