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This guidance sets out how we expect Wellcome Centres and Programmes to meet our open access policy, how authors should acknowlege our funding, and how open access funds can…

Experts across Africa and Asia are leading critical work to understand and address the biggest health challenges faced by their communities. We invest in people and…

Monkeys infected with an emerging malaria strain are providing a reservoir for human disease in South-east Asia, according to research published today. The Wellcome Trust-…

An unprecedented insight into the changing health of people across Africa and Asia - including the fluctuating burdens of HIV, malaria and childhood mortality - is revealed…

Drug-resistant malaria parasites have spread to critical border regions of South-east Asia, seriously threatening global malaria control and elimination programmes, according…

Providing clean delivery kits and improving birthing practices could halve the number of neonatal deaths following home births in South Asia, according to research funded by…

Tackling drug-resistant infections requires more research, surveillance and better data. Dr Mo Yin explains how the ADVANCE-ID network is taking on this challenge in Asia –…

Resistance to the antimalarial drug artemisinin is established in Myanmar and has reached within 25 km of the Indian border. Artemisinin resistance threatens to follow the…

Researchers in South-east Asia have identified two genetic variants associated with increased susceptibility to severe dengue. The study - funded by the Wellcome Trust and…

Researchers in South-east Asia have identified a novel mechanism that allows the organism Burkholderia pseudomallei - the cause of melioidosis, a neglected tropical…

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘International Engagement Awards’. International Engagement Awards have been replaced by the Public…

One of the most influential figures in modern infectious disease research, Professor Sir Nick White died on 1 February 2026. Through decades of research, working with…

New research has shed light on the origins of a fungal infection that is one of the major causes of death from AIDS-related illnesses. The study, published in the journal ‘…

How do you go about building all the skills you need at the start of your research career? Cherry found a mentor to guide her through this journey.

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…

Six months on from the first case of COVID-19, the pandemic is accelerating and spreading into new areas. Jeremy Farrar talks about the lessons we learned and the long-term…

The Nobel prizes give a human face to science. But does celebrating individuals risk undermining a collaborative research culture?