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The true impact of the Covid-19 pandemic will be felt beyond its immediate effects. Jeremy Farrar explains why the choices leaders make now will help define the 21st century.
The Government has thrown its support behind a unique £500 milion medical research partnership that will bring together the country's best scientists to bolster the battle…
The Wellcome Trust has announced that from 1st October 2005, all papers from new research projects must be deposited in PubMed Central or UK PubMed Central – once it has been…
The government’s proposed reforms to the National Health Service lack a clear vision of what a 21st-century health service should deliver, according to the Director of the…
The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI) has applied to Camden Council for permission to build a world-leading medical research institute at St Pancras and…
Celebrating 150 years of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London, Wellcome Collection opens its doors for a late night extravaganza…
Following on from the sell out success of last year’s event, Wellcome Collection is delighted to be returning with Quacks and Cures - an unusual, quirky and entertaining…
Salary: £ 37,550 Closing date: Sunday, 30 June 2024 Contract type: Fixed Term Contract – End date: 1st March 2027 The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We…
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…
If climate change is one of the greatest global health threats of the 21st century, climate mitigation is the greatest global health opportunity. Here’s why.
Wellcome Photography Prize, a new international photography prize celebrating compelling imagery that captures stories of health, medicine and science launches today.
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,…
The winners of our Survival Rivals competition to send a group of UK students to the Galápagos Islands are announced today at the British Science Festival in Birmingham.
Our Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) enables universities in the UK and Ireland to invest in areas that are of mutual strategic importance to Wellcome and the…
Over 800,000 pages of archival material from psychiatric hospitals in the UK from the 18th to the 20th centuries will be digitised and made freely available online as part of…
From today, pupils at every school and college across the UK will get the opportunity to learn how their bodies work during exercise, movement and rest with free experiment…
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-…