Seed wins $500,000 Developing Beyond Video games final
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-…
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New report sets out options for fostering transparent and competitive market for open access publishing
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…
Is the world running out of freshwater?
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…
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Simge Eva Dogan
Wellcome Open Research launches with first articles
Wellcome Open Research, Wellcome’s publishing platform, launches today. Its first articles are now published and freely available to view, and will shortly undergo open peer…
Global leaders urged to address ‘fragile progress’ on tackling superbugs
GLOBAL efforts to counter the threat of dangerous superbugs must move faster and with more focus, health leaders are warning.
Leading psychiatrist calls for roll-out of lay counselling to tackle massive burden of harmful drinking and depression in India
Leading Indian psychiatrist Professor Vikram Patel has published two studies today in The Lancet1 that he argues provide strong evidence for the roll out of lay counselling…
Grant funding data for 2023/24
We publish a summary of our grant funding data every year to show how we spend our money.
Introduction
Wellcome Global Monitor 2020 Introduction
Why we still haven’t stopped cholera
Why have attempts to get it under control failed? Rose George reports on an outbreak that went on far longer than anyone expected.
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Rose George
Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic
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- Jane Palmer
Climate change putting millions more people at risk from infection-causing fungi
Researchers forecast that there will be an increased risk of infection from fungi over the coming years, including a significant spread of some fungal pathogens across Europe…
Chapter 2: Experience of anxiety or depression
Wellcome Global Monitor 2020 Chapter 2
AVATAR: a digital therapy that could help people who hear voices
AVATAR therapy aims to reduce the distress that people who hear voices can experience. Here, we explain how it works – and share the encouraging results from the latest…
How malaria defeats our drugs
In the war against malaria, one small corner of the globe has repeatedly turned the tide, rendering our best weapons moot and medicine on the brink of defeat. Ed Yong reports.
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- Ed Yong
Public invited to contribute 'Things' to Sir Henry Wellcome's curious collection
Wellcome Collection is calling on the public to loan or donate objects and become co-creators of its new temporary exhibition, ‘Things’.
Chapter 3: How people manage anxiety or depression
Wellcome Global Monitor 2020 Chapter 3
Efficacy of RTS,S malaria vaccine declines over seven years
Results from a long-term phase II study of the malaria vaccine RTS,S show that its efficacy falls over time. This decline is fastest in children living in areas with higher…
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
How to complete an outputs management plan
An overview of things to consider as you develop your outputs management plan.