'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' wins the Wellcome Trust Book Prize
Ten years in the making, ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ - a beautiful but harrowing work of non-fiction by Rebecca Skloot - has won the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize.
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'Keeper' by Andrea Gillies wins first ever Wellcome Trust Book Prize
A thoughtful and moving book that takes the reader on a journey into dementia has won the first Wellcome Trust Book Prize.
Science can give us the tools to end the pandemic, but it needs funding
Vaccines, tests and treatments, alongside well-equipped health systems, are the solutions to bringing the Covid-19 pandemic under control. But this won’t happen without…
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Jeremy Farrar
Seed wins $500,000 Developing Beyond Video games final
A virtual reality plant breeding game won $150,000 yesterday evening when judges led by Susan Calman chose Seed by All Seeing Eye to win Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-…
Winner of the first Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize announced
Al Smith has won the first ever Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize for ‘Halflife’, a coming-of-age love story centred on two brain-damaged teenagers on a road trip. The £20…
115 years of malaria in Africa: despite unprecedented decline since 2000, progress has stalled
115 years of malaria data collected in Africa, described today in Nature, gives the most detailed picture yet of where efforts to control malaria infection are being won and…
What we can learn from HIV to help end this pandemic
Covid-19 isn’t the first time the world has had to deal with a global pandemic – and it won’t be the last. But lessons learned from previous disease outbreaks, such as HIV/…
We hail individual geniuses, but success in science comes through collaboration
The Nobel prizes give a human face to science. But does celebrating individuals risk undermining a collaborative research culture?
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- Jeremy Farrar
Knitting to ease depression
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Jameisha Prescod turned to knitting when she felt overwhelmed by everything. Her self-portrait, Untangling, was one of the winners of the…
Why the world needs $8 billion now to get us to COVID-Zero
Only when we have tools to detect, treat and prevent coronavirus disease everywhere, will we be able to stop the pandemic. Developing these tools requires new global…
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- Jeremy Farrar
2012 Wellcome Trust Book Prize judging panel announced
The judging panel for the fourth Wellcome Trust Book Prize is announced today. Chairing the panel of judges this year is journalist, broadcaster and author Mark Lawson.
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To make the charity sector safe for everyone, we need to Speak Up
We know that in the charity sector it can be difficult for colleagues to challenge bad practice. That’s why we’ve developed Speak Up – a new initiative to help us build a…
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Fraser Simpson
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2012 Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist announced
Peter James, Rose Tremain, Nick Coleman, John Coates, Mohammed Hanif and Thomas Wright are today announced as the six shortlisted authors for the £25 000 Wellcome Trust Book…
We need Covid-19 treatments as well as vaccines – and they have to work for everyone
Effective treatments, that are accessible to everyone who needs them, have to be part of the solution to the coronavirus pandemic.
Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2011 shortlist announced
The Wellcome Trust Book Prize today announces its third ever shortlist for works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine.
Wellcome Photography Prize 2019
The winners of the Wellcome Photography Prize 2019, chosen from a shortlist of 28 entries from 12 countries.
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