Wellcome launches £250m fund to place big bets on bold research
Wellcome is to launch a new £250m fund that will place big bets on ambitious research programmes with the potential to fundamentally change science or transform health over a…
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Hedging your bets: how the brain makes decisions based on related information
When making decisions based on multiple, interdependent factors, we choose based on how these factors correlate with each other and not using an ad hoc rule of thumb or…
Wellcome Annual Report 2023/24: Big bets and bold partnerships in science key to unlocking healthier future
Global charitable foundation Wellcome announces series of successes for health thanks to long-term investments and partnerships in science as it publishes its annual report
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…
Treatments will take the fear and helplessness out of coronavirus – here’s how businesses can help find them
Science will show us the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. And businesses and philanthropy can play a major role by stepping up to fund coronavirus treatments, as well as…
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Jeremy Farrar
This virus isn’t going away. The only way to beat it is to work together
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…
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- Jeremy Farrar
Can chloroquine prevent coronavirus disease? Only research will give us the answer
The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator is funding clinical trials that will answer whether the anti-malarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can be used to prevent…
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Nicholas Cammack
Global institutions must act urgently and decisively to tackle Covid-19
The Covid-19 outbreak is not just a public health crisis, it’s rapidly becoming a global crisis – of health, economics and politics.
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- Jeremy Farrar
Rockefeller Foundation and Wellcome Partnership Drives Global Climate-Informed Health Action
At a joint event on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly, The Rockefeller Foundation announced a US $5.2 million grant to the World Meteorological Organization (…
Global philanthropies commit $300 million to accelerate solutions on climate and health
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…
Why we still haven’t stopped cholera
Why have attempts to get it under control failed? Rose George reports on an outbreak that went on far longer than anyone expected.
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Rose George
Climate and Health Funders Coalition
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…
Which changes are already making a difference to research culture?
We hear from researchers about some amazing initiatives and cross-sector partnerships that are transforming research culture in the UK.
Wellcome statements on Covid-19
Statements issued by Wellcome in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Episode 1: What can we do to stop superbugs?
After years of antibiotics being abused and overused, we now face a silent pandemic where the treatments we rely on no longer work. Dr Anand Anandkumar joins Alisha on…
Learning from others to create a healthier research culture
What can the research sector learn from other industries about creating a healthy working environment?