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Ben has always had a strong sense of what he wants to do. But as a clinician, he had to find ways to balance research with medical training and clinical practice.
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Maggy Chan
Chief Operating Officer
Maggy Chan joined Wellcome as Chief Operating Officer (COO) in January 2025.
Ben Murton
Head of Early Career and Career Development Researchers
We're establishing a new institute to advance genomics in Africa
With funding from Wellcome and the Chan Zuckerberg Institute, the ABI aims to support and develop sustainable genomics and wider bioinformatics research in Africa.
Announcing three new members of Wellcome’s Executive Committee
Professor Rachel McKendry has been appointed as Executive Director of Discovery, Professor Charlotte Watts the Executive Director of Solutions, and Maggy Chan as Wellcome’s…
Winner of the first Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize announced
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…
Making the health impacts of climate change visible
In spite of what we know about the impacts of climate change on health, policymakers and decision-makers are still not taking action quickly and decisively enough. Here's why…
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Ben Ryder
Wellcome awards £17.5m to support global research drive
As world braces for El Niño – can science help to limit the catastrophic health effects of soaring global temperatures?
How can we better reward teamwork in research?
For a long time, academia has emphasised individual achievement over teamwork and collegiality. We want to change that.
Agenda: Reimagine Research Culture Festival
Agenda for our free online festival in March 2021, which brought together the research community to take action and help reimagine research. Activities included panel…
How is AI reshaping health research?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to reshape science and health. Three experts share the potential benefits and pitfalls of AI in health research.
How to make sense of the body's billions of cells
An ambitious international project is attempting to create a 'Google map' of the human body by making three-dimensional maps of every human cell. It could…
£23mn for global research to protect human health from climate change
Wellcome announce funding for 11 transdisciplinary teams across 17 countries to investigate the health impacts of climate change
John-Arne Røttingen
Chief Executive Officer
John-Arne Røttingen joined Wellcome as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in January 2024 and leads the charitable foundation’s mission to support science to solve the urgent…
Miracles & Charms at Wellcome Collection
Miracles & Charms, Wellcome Collection’s autumn exhibition programme, opens today, exploring the extraordinary in the everyday with a pair of shows. Drawing lines between…
Wellcome announces new Executive Committee appointments
Wellcome – the global charitable foundation funding curiosity-driven science and research to solve urgent health challenges – is announcing three new members of its Executive…
Wellcome appoints Dr John-Arne Røttingen as Chief Executive Officer to lead its £16bn strategy to back science and build a healthier future
Dr John-Arne Røttingen, a medical scientist, public health official, diplomat and research administrator, will take up the post in January 2024.
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Wellcome is an independent charitable foundation. Our work is funded from an investment portfolio that currently stands at £37.8 billion.
Human Cell Atlas gets a boost with first funding from Wellcome
A team of UK scientists will begin work to scale up efforts to create a Human Cell Atlas, after the first injection of funding for generating data from human cells is…
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator awards $20 million in initial grants to fund clinical trials
Researchers at three institutions in the US and UK receive grants to advance studies of repurposed drugs and novel antibodies in preventing COVID-19.