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Wellcome joins group of 35 leading philanthropies, uniting to address the escalating public health crisis driven by climate change – which puts at least 3.3 billion people at…

Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have both pledged $150 million each to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to help end the Covid-…

The foundations call on world leaders to support the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to help end the COVID-19 crisis, prepare for future pandemics, and…

Wellcome Collection’s major winter exhibition, ‘Death’, will showcase some 300 works from a unique collection devoted to the iconography of death and our complex and…

Wellcome Collection’s major winter exhibition ‘Death: A self-portrait’ showcases some 300 works from a unique collection devoted to the iconography of death and our complex…

Wellcome Collection’s spring exhibition, ‘Outsider Art from Japan’, will bring together more than 300 works for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art in the UK.…

Our Director Jeremy Farrar responds to an open letter from more than 300 Black, Asian and minority ethnic academics, calling for racial justice in UK higher education.

Wellcome Collection turns 10 in 2017, and today it announces its forthcoming exhibition programme for this special birthday year.

Patients suffering sudden liver failure could in the future benefit from a new treatment that could reduce the need for transplants, research published today shows.

Science is the shining light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, efforts to prepare for future epidemics and pandemics must focus on keeping pace with infectious diseases through…

Wellcome Collection opens its doors late on Friday 17 May for ‘The Nose’, a captivating night of talks, performances, interactive events and drop-in sessions, dedicated to…

Find out about Wellcome’s impact in 2024/25, with notes from our Chair and CEO, reports on what we did last year and reviews of our finances and investments.

World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly have today committed to tackling the rise in drug resistant infections.

Frequent antenatal screening has allowed doctors to detect and treat malaria in its early stages on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, dramatically reducing the number of…

The Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome awarded a total of $60 million to support collaborative research to accelerate the discovery of next-generation…

The sequence and analysis of more than 95 per cent of the mouse genome is published for the first time in 'Nature'. In addition to revealing 9000 new mouse genes, the…

The Climate and Health Funders Coalition is an alliance of big-hitting funders from across the world. They are combining their resources to tackle the impacts of climate…

Three of Europe’s biggest philanthropic foundations have joined together to award €5m to tackle some of the most pressing global challenges of our time.

A new treatment for schizophrenia – backed by Wellcome-funded research – has been approved by the FDA and has the potential to change the lives of millions of people living…