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A thoughtful and moving book that takes the reader on a journey into dementia has won the first Wellcome Trust Book Prize.

Ten years in the making, ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ - a beautiful but harrowing work of non-fiction by Rebecca Skloot - has won the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize.

A virtual reality plant breeding game won $150,000 yesterday evening when judges led by Susan Calman chose Seed by All Seeing Eye to win Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-…

Vaccines, tests and treatments, alongside well-equipped health systems, are the solutions to bringing the Covid-19 pandemic under control. But this won’t happen without…

Al Smith has won the first ever Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize for ‘Halflife’, a coming-of-age love story centred on two brain-damaged teenagers on a road trip. The £20…

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…

Covid-19 isn’t the first time the world has had to deal with a global pandemic – and it won’t be the last. But lessons learned from previous disease outbreaks, such as HIV/…

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Jameisha Prescod turned to knitting when she felt overwhelmed by everything. Her self-portrait, Untangling, was one of the winners of the…

We know that in the charity sector it can be difficult for colleagues to challenge bad practice. That’s why we’ve developed Speak Up – a new initiative to help us build a…

John-Arne Røttingen, chief executive of Wellcome, responds to the UK government's plans to set new 10-year budgets for R&D funding.

Only when we have tools to detect, treat and prevent coronavirus disease everywhere, will we be able to stop the pandemic. Developing these tools requires new global…

The judging panel for the fourth Wellcome Trust Book Prize is announced today. Chairing the panel of judges this year is journalist, broadcaster and author Mark Lawson.

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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…

Wellcome Trust survey on research culture in the UK and globally exposes the stark pressures faced by many who work in research.

Effective treatments, that are accessible to everyone who needs them, have to be part of the solution to the coronavirus pandemic.

John-Arne Røttingen, chief executive of Wellcome, responds to DSIT's funding announcement ahead of the spending review. 

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize today announces its third ever shortlist for works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine.