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Wellcome is making a pledge of up to £10 million to accelerate research and support global efforts to tackle the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.
2009/10 was another challenging year for economies and financial markets. Governments and central banks around the world were forced to continue intervening in markets in…
2009/10 was another challenging year for economies and financial markets. Governments and central banks around the world were forced to continue intervening in markets in…
Research can help to improve health in many different ways, which is why Wellcome funds a broad range of people and projects. Here are just 10 of the great ideas we’re…
The Wellcome Trust has given the Science Museum in London £10 million for its landmark new Medicine Galleries. The £24m project will create a new home for the world-renowned…
A major new research partnership to understand how we can transform cities around the world to equitably support healthier lives, whilst also protecting the planet, has been…
As its Director, Sir Mark Walport, steps down, the Wellcome Trust has revealed that the total amount of charitable expenditure made by the Trust since the 1980s - when it…
On the tenth anniversary of the completion of the first draft of the human genome - a draft that took ten years to complete - the Wellcome Trust has launched a project to…
The Wellcome Trust has now committed more than £10 million as part of an emergency package of research funding to tackle the ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The news…
Alisha speaks to Professor Ruth DeFries to discuss how the world has become reliant on a small number of crops (such as corn and rice), leaving us in a vulnerable position if…
Ensuring the people who most need access to vaccines and effective treatments against Covid-19, wherever they are in the world, is supported by almost 9 in 10 German adults.
The UK government announced today that it is to invest a further £10 million over five years from 2013/14 in Project ENTHUSE, matched by investment from the Wellcome Trust*,…
In 2016, we surveyed more than 4,000 students between year 10 and year 13 to hear their attitudes towards and experiences of science education and careers.
Charlie Weller has been at Wellcome since 2014. In September 2021 she became Head of Prevention in the Infectious Disease team, after five years leading the…
Leading scientists from the public efforts to map the human genome today celebrate a decade of discovery since the announcement of the first draft. And in a dramatic sign of…
In the first ever exhibition in an art gallery to investigate bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its impact, Turner Prize nominee Roger Hiorns curates a section of '…
Eight in 10 (82 per cent) researchers carried out at least one form of public engagement in the past year, according to a new study launched today at the Engage conference in…