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The largest study of epilepsy in Africa to date reveals that programmes to control parasitic diseases and access to better antenatal care could substantially reduce the…

At the end of 2018, Wellcome launched a review to look at the way it funds science. This report presents the main findings.

Join Julia Gillard, Chair of Wellcome, as she brings together three experts from the podcast series to reflect on the main themes that have emerged and ask what challenges…

The heads of the three main funding bodies for bioscience research in the UK have today written an open letter to the vice-chancellors and principals of universities 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-…

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.…

This partnership funds global health researchers who focus on health priorities in low- and middle-income countries.

Alisha speaks to Professor Christian Happi about his pioneering use of genomic sequencing during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, and how the technology could unlock the…

The Wellcome Trust is working with the Government Office of Life Sciences to take forward a review that aims to help new medicines and technologies be more quickly and…

In the mid-19th century, John Snow mapped cases of cholera in Soho, London, and traced the source of the outbreak to a contaminated water pump. Now, in a 21st-century…

Why brain asymmetry exists and how it comes about is still a mystery. Researchers we’re funding aim to find answers with the help of zebrafish. 

A study published today in the journal ‘Nature’ casts doubt on the widely held notion that warming global temperatures will lead to a future intensification of malaria and an…

Restricting the use of antibiotics is unlikely to stop the spread of drug resistance in typhoid fever, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in the…

Watch our recorded webinars to learn how Wellcome Discovery Research funding can support research and researchers based in low- and middle-income countries around the world.

The ‘grand narrative’ of 20th-century medicine is of the conquest of infectious diseases, through public health measures, vaccine and antibiotics. However, a new book looks…

Damon Buffini, one of the City’s leading private equity fund managers, has joined the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust, taking up his position at the beginning of…

The UK Government is working with the Wellcome Trust and other global organisations to tackle the growing problem of drug-resistant infection with a new £195 million fund,…

A study published today identifies the most effective drug combinations recommended for use as first-line treatments for malaria. The research also suggests that augmenting…

The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme - one of the Wellcome Trust’s major overseas programmes - is to receive around £14 million over five years in…