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To accompany a major exhibition opening in February 2016, Wellcome Collection will publish 'States of Mind: Experiences at the Edge of Consciousness'. The book is a…

We fund research that uses animals if it is legal, ethical and scientifically justified. Find out what researchers and organisations must do to comply, including what animals…

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…

This is our analysis of Wellcome grants involving animal research between October 2022 and September 2023.

Wellcome's position on animal research, including our case studies, commitments and guidelines for the researchers and organisations we fund.

Thomas Wright has been announced as the winner of the £25 000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize for ‘Circulation’, his biography of William Harvey.

The longlist for the £25 000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize was announced yesterday, bringing together a varied range of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness…

Researchers at the University of Essex have shown that a genetic variant could make some people more sensitive to their emotional environment - and more susceptible to…

Zoonotic diseases represent a major global public health problem due to our close relationship with animals. But how do they spread and how can they be prevented?

This Wellcome Collection exhibition brings together over 100 objects from literature, film, taxidermy and photography to examine what we think, feel and value about other…

The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change.

Covid-19 alerted the world to the devastating potential of pandemics in the 21st century. Photojournalist Hugh Kinsella Cunningham and writer and public health professional,…

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 People Awards have been replaced by the Public Engagement Fund.

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘Translation Fund’.

Acclaimed writer Bill Bryson will chair an eminent panel of judges, the Wellcome Book Prize has announced today.

Marion Coutts has been awarded the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 for 'The Iceberg', her memoir on art, work, death and language, published by Atlantic Books. The announcement was…

The winning images from the 2014 Wellcome Image Awards.

Alisha talks to Professor John Wright about how one open-ended study of 40,000 people in the city of Bradford is changing lives and bonding communities around the world.

Professor Susan Golombok joins Alisha on Wellcome's When Science Finds a Way podcast to discuss how her research into different family structures has changed laws and…