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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.

Many government strategies depend on R&D spending, making it crucial that commitments in this area are met in the spending review, Wellcome said today in its submission…

Alan Dangour, Director of Climate and Health at Wellcome, responds to Met Office report warning of 45 degree heat in UK and month long heatwaves

Launch of a £25,000 annual award, created by the Wellcome Trust, bringing together the traditionally diverse fields of medicine and literature.

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…

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…

Fragen und Themen rund um die COVID-19-Impfstoffe, einfach erklärt: Wie funktionieren die Impfstoffe? Warum …

For a long time, academia has emphasised individual achievement over teamwork and collegiality. We want to change that. 

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…

Wellcome announce funding for 11 transdisciplinary teams across 17 countries to investigate the health impacts of climate change

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowships’.

Containment measures introduced in Vietnam to prevent the spread of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza did not succeed in halting the virus, but may have bought health services…

Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome, reacts to the UK Government's 2021 Autumn Budget, in which it was announced that public investment in UK R&D will reach £20…

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…

A doctor and scientist of great compassion and intellect, Sir David Weatherall died on 8 December 2018. He was a member of Wellcome’s Board throughout the 1990s, helping to…

Developed in collaboration with our LGBTQ+ network at Wellcome, we're launching a new trans inclusion policy for our staff.

The Wellcome Trust today responds to ‘Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence: How to expand access to research publications’, the report of the Working Group on Expanding…

Four European research funders have today added their support to the open access repository UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) by agreeing that the life sciences research outputs made…

After a two-day games hack in which scientists and games developers came together to create video games from doctoral research, a bacterial shoot-em-up game, ‘Dysbiosis’, has…