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Christiane Hertz-Fowler, our Head of Directed Activity, outlines what we mean by directed funding, the types of initiatives it supports and how it can drive major advances in…

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…

'Electricity', the Wellcome Trust’s first co-production feature film, is released in select cinemas nationally from 12 December, by Soda Pictures. Starring Agyness Deyn as a…

A rare medieval manuscript threatened with exile abroad has been bought by the UK's leading library for the history of medicine and is available to the public today for the…

Alisha speaks to Professor Vikram Patel to explore how cash transfers could hold the key to coming up with a universally applicable and low-cost breakthrough in the treatment…

Health representatives from national governments and agencies, civil society, the private sector and global philanthropies will meet in Ghana next week, to focus on ambitious…

The jointly-funded Biomedical Research Career Programme will fund cutting-edge biomedical research in India, and complement recent Wellcome Trust investment to support public…

The voice is shapeless and immaterial, and yet fills up an entire gallery in Wellcome Collection's major spring exhibition.

Bedlam has long been a byword for chaos. Now a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection opens the doors to the historic asylum from which it derives. Through the lens of the…

A million Rohingya refugees in crowded shelters with poor sanitation – ideal conditions for infections to spread. Here’s how to stop these deadly outbreaks.

This panel interviews candidates shortlisted for Wellcome Career Development Awards.

We’ve awarded £12 million, in partnership with DFID, to speed up global Covid-19 research and development and help low- and middle-income countries prepare. But more…

Climate change is a global health crisis, and that includes mental health. Find out how it’s impacting our mental health and what can be done to prevent and manage it.

Coronavirus treatments and vaccines should first be made available to those who need them most, public polling in several countries shows.

Our mission is to understand which approaches are effective in supporting mental health in the workplace. To do this, we are bringing together employers and the mental health…

Winning images from the 2017 Wellcome Image Awards.