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Michael Dunn, Director of Discovery Research, shares his ambitions for transformative research that supports careers in environments where discoveries improve health.

Learn how increasing diversity in genomic datasets will benefit global health and scientific progress.

The judging panel for the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize has been announced. Chaired by Clive Anderson, former barrister, comedy writer and presenter, the panel includes…

The genomes of King Richard III and one of his direct living descendants are to be sequenced in a project funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Leverhulme Trust and Professor Sir…

A leadership programme, backed by Wellcome, aims to empower and train policymakers to improve mental health policy and outcomes in Africa by focusing on local needs and…

Playwright Mick Gordon and Director Christopher Haydon are delighted to announce the cast for ‘Pressure Drop’, the first major theatrical production at Wellcome Collection.

Dr Alison Cave has joined the Wellcome Trust as Head of Cellular, Developmental and Physiological Sciences in its Science Funding Division. She joins the Trust from the…

An astonishing image of a pregnant pony's uterus has been selected as the overall winner of the 2015 Wellcome Image Awards.

The government’s proposed reforms to the National Health Service lack a clear vision of what a 21st-century health service should deliver, according to the Director of the…

Who donates their brain to science? Where do these brains go and how are they used? At a free event at the Dana Centre in London tonight, an expert panel will debate the…

Julia Gillard, the former Prime Minister of Australia, has been appointed as the next Chair of Wellcome. She will will succeed Eliza Manningham-Buller, who is…

Researchers have created mammalian cells containing a single set of chromosomes in research funded by the Wellcome Trust and EMBO. The technique should allow scientists to…

Wellcome responds to the UK government's new £650 million package of funding for life sciences.

Wellcome Collection is offering Londoners the chance to experience an enchanted version of their city with the release of a new free iPhone app, Magic in Modern London. With…

As part of a nationwide tour of activity from the Wellcome Trust, The Identity Project arrives in Oxford this month. A series of exhibitions, talks and films exploring who we…

The UK's structural biology community will have access to the most advanced crystallography technology in the world thanks to a £5.64 million investment from UK research…

The ‘grand narrative’ of 20th-century medicine is of the conquest of infectious diseases, through public health measures, vaccine and antibiotics. However, a new book looks…