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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.

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…

The Opera Group collaborates with the Institute of Psychiatry on ‘The Lion’s Face’, a new opera about dementia.

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…

The Wellcome Image Awards 2011, celebrating the most striking and technically excellent images acquired by the Wellcome Images picture library in the past 18 months, were…

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-…

Ethnicity categories in UK healthcare are inconsistent and not always accurate. This has real-world consequences, like how we estimate the risks of Covid-19 for different…

A new report published today identifies options through which funders can help ensure that the rapidly growing open access market delivers high-quality services and value for…

Wellcome Collection opens the second part of a year-long exploration into human consciousness on 4 February 2016. 'States of Mind: Tracing the Edges of Consciousness'…

As the climate crisis intensifies, it shrinks and contaminates the water we rely on. We need to act now to reduce the existing and emerging threat that this poses to our…

Wellcome is announcing £73 million in funding for eight new Discovery Research Platforms to help overcome barriers holding back progress across fields of research.

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

Where does research culture originate and what tools do we have to change it? People from across the research community share their ideas for change.   

Excellence in research shouldn’t come at the expense of those who make it happen.

These reports explore the landscape of research leadership in Africa and India, based on interviews with more than 600 researchers and research leaders.

Leaving academia isn’t the same as leaving research – Danil Mikhailov shares his story.