Prof Mehta and team were awarded £1.4 m @wellcometrust Mental Health Award to apply neuroscience to study paranoia as a symptom experienced across different mental health conditions 👏🧠🥼
To learn more about the project: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/1.4-mil...
To learn more about the project: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/1.4-mil...
www.kcl.ac.uk
February 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Prof Mehta and team were awarded £1.4 m @wellcometrust Mental Health Award to apply neuroscience to study paranoia as a symptom experienced across different mental health conditions 👏🧠🥼
To learn more about the project: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/1.4-mil...
To learn more about the project: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/1.4-mil...
My dream team and I have been awarded a @wellcometrust Discovery Award of £3.5M over eight years to study how odour shapes mother-baby interaction and its role in breastfeeding. We're beyond delighted. Read more here: stir.ac.uk/news/2024/augu…
November 11, 2024 at 10:05 PM
My dream team and I have been awarded a @wellcometrust Discovery Award of £3.5M over eight years to study how odour shapes mother-baby interaction and its role in breastfeeding. We're beyond delighted. Read more here: stir.ac.uk/news/2024/augu…
The version of record of our paper on the emergence of metachronal waves in the #platynereis larval ciliary band is now out. Together with Rebecca Poon and Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw4067
funded by
@ERC_Research @wellcometrust @bbsrc
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw4067
funded by
@ERC_Research @wellcometrust @bbsrc
October 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The version of record of our paper on the emergence of metachronal waves in the #platynereis larval ciliary band is now out. Together with Rebecca Poon and Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw4067
funded by
@ERC_Research @wellcometrust @bbsrc
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw4067
funded by
@ERC_Research @wellcometrust @bbsrc
We just published a paper on what the new NATIONAL DATA LIBRARY should look like.
It's very readable!
Lots on: accountability.. federated analytics.. code.. modular tools..
Thanks to @wellcometrust and @ESRC who ran a competition for these papers!
zenodo.org/records/1467...
It's very readable!
Lots on: accountability.. federated analytics.. code.. modular tools..
Thanks to @wellcometrust and @ESRC who ran a competition for these papers!
zenodo.org/records/1467...
A National Data Library: the Modular Approach
The UK National Data Library: Technical White Paper Challenge, initiated by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), sought visionary approaches to enhancing access to UK public s...
zenodo.org
January 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We just published a paper on what the new NATIONAL DATA LIBRARY should look like.
It's very readable!
Lots on: accountability.. federated analytics.. code.. modular tools..
Thanks to @wellcometrust and @ESRC who ran a competition for these papers!
zenodo.org/records/1467...
It's very readable!
Lots on: accountability.. federated analytics.. code.. modular tools..
Thanks to @wellcometrust and @ESRC who ran a competition for these papers!
zenodo.org/records/1467...
I had a sobering discussion with John-Arne Rottingen, CEO of the #WellcomeTrust about the impact of the abrupt cessation of US international aid on disease control efforts and #WHO.
www.statnews.com/2025/03/18/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/18/c...
‘No one can fill that gap’: Why a global health leader sees U.S. funding as irreplaceable
‘No one can fill that gap’: Why the head of the Wellcome Trust, the world’s fourth-largest charitable foundation, sees U.S. global health funding as irreplaceable.
www.statnews.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I had a sobering discussion with John-Arne Rottingen, CEO of the #WellcomeTrust about the impact of the abrupt cessation of US international aid on disease control efforts and #WHO.
www.statnews.com/2025/03/18/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/18/c...
We made a short animation explaining what goes wrong in the lungs during asthma! 🫁🎬 Designed for the public, students & patients—check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work.
Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!
Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!
August 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We made a short animation explaining what goes wrong in the lungs during asthma! 🫁🎬 Designed for the public, students & patients—check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work.
Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!
Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!
ARTIC #mpox resources! Guides to setup #sequencing #bioinformatics and #analysis
artic.network/mpxv/resources
#wellcometrust #nanopore #illumina
#molecularepidemiology #pathogen #pathogensurviellance #bioinformatics #epidemiology #virus #outbreak #clinicalvirology
artic.network/mpxv/resources
#wellcometrust #nanopore #illumina
#molecularepidemiology #pathogen #pathogensurviellance #bioinformatics #epidemiology #virus #outbreak #clinicalvirology
August 27, 2024 at 1:44 PM
The #WellcomeTrust CDA Fellowship team is fully assembled! Saikou Bah, Henna Khalid, Sona Jabang & Jess Buddle, let the #StrepA research commence 🥳🎉 @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social #UniversityofSheffield
March 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The #WellcomeTrust CDA Fellowship team is fully assembled! Saikou Bah, Henna Khalid, Sona Jabang & Jess Buddle, let the #StrepA research commence 🥳🎉 @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social #UniversityofSheffield
🗣️ "Wellcometrust is here at COP30noBrasil to make the case that the climate crisis is fundamentally a health crisis." – Alan Dangour, Director of Climate & Health, Wellcometrust, discussing rising heat & health risks, policy solutions & collaboration in climate action.
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🗣️ "Wellcometrust is here at COP30noBrasil to make the case that the climate crisis is fundamentally a health crisis." – Alan Dangour, Director of Climate & Health, Wellcometrust, discussing rising heat & health risks, policy solutions & collaboration in climate action.
An enormous thanks to @wellcometrust and everyone who’s helped along the way
📢 PhD position open now 🎓– apply here 👉
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
🧪 Postdoc adverts coming 2026!
📢 PhD position open now 🎓– apply here 👉
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
🧪 Postdoc adverts coming 2026!
Supervisors and Projects
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
An enormous thanks to @wellcometrust and everyone who’s helped along the way
📢 PhD position open now 🎓– apply here 👉
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
🧪 Postdoc adverts coming 2026!
📢 PhD position open now 🎓– apply here 👉
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
🧪 Postdoc adverts coming 2026!
Photography exhibition & stories from people Living with ME.
#mecfs #chronicillness #wellcometrust
wellcomecollection.org/stories/livi...
#mecfs #chronicillness #wellcometrust
wellcomecollection.org/stories/livi...
Living with ME
Nine people with ME reveal their unremitting struggles as they negotiate life with their illness, including their battles to be believed, diagnosed and supported.
wellcomecollection.org
November 28, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Photography exhibition & stories from people Living with ME.
#mecfs #chronicillness #wellcometrust
wellcomecollection.org/stories/livi...
#mecfs #chronicillness #wellcometrust
wellcomecollection.org/stories/livi...
Also, exciting news here about new £17m investment from @wellcometrust in our secure efficient OpenSAFELY platform to build privacy preserving tools on top of mental health data for researchers, and more. Huge thanks to Wellcome and @NHSEngland as ever.
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/researc...
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/researc...
Major investment to transform mental health treatment research and further develop secure NHS data platform
Department researchers awarded £17 million from Wellcome to analyse NHS talking therapy outcomes and enhance secure data research. The project will enable unprecedented mental health treatment researc...
www.phc.ox.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Also, exciting news here about new £17m investment from @wellcometrust in our secure efficient OpenSAFELY platform to build privacy preserving tools on top of mental health data for researchers, and more. Huge thanks to Wellcome and @NHSEngland as ever.
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/researc...
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/researc...
As an archive we collected thousands of stories and diaries from across the UK during Covid. As part of project funded by @wellcometrust we've digitised them and they're all available here database.massobs.org.uk/projects_dat...
Some are quite a hard read looking back, but a vital collection
Some are quite a hard read looking back, but a vital collection
Mass Observation Mass-Observing COVID-19 Database
database.massobs.org.uk
March 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
As an archive we collected thousands of stories and diaries from across the UK during Covid. As part of project funded by @wellcometrust we've digitised them and they're all available here database.massobs.org.uk/projects_dat...
Some are quite a hard read looking back, but a vital collection
Some are quite a hard read looking back, but a vital collection
Great #PhDday #AdvancedTherapiesforRegMed
#WellcomeTrust PhD Programme 🧪🧫👩🎓🧑🎓@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🎉Congrats to our students & alumni for their excellent contribution with talks & posters!
🤩Fantastic Guest Keynote Speaker @cellysally.bsky.social
for such an inspiring talk! Thank You 🙏
#WellcomeTrust PhD Programme 🧪🧫👩🎓🧑🎓@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🎉Congrats to our students & alumni for their excellent contribution with talks & posters!
🤩Fantastic Guest Keynote Speaker @cellysally.bsky.social
for such an inspiring talk! Thank You 🙏
December 7, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Great #PhDday #AdvancedTherapiesforRegMed
#WellcomeTrust PhD Programme 🧪🧫👩🎓🧑🎓@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🎉Congrats to our students & alumni for their excellent contribution with talks & posters!
🤩Fantastic Guest Keynote Speaker @cellysally.bsky.social
for such an inspiring talk! Thank You 🙏
#WellcomeTrust PhD Programme 🧪🧫👩🎓🧑🎓@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🎉Congrats to our students & alumni for their excellent contribution with talks & posters!
🤩Fantastic Guest Keynote Speaker @cellysally.bsky.social
for such an inspiring talk! Thank You 🙏
Excited to be awarded funding from WellcomeTrust for InFrame research cultures project for “RTPs : Recognising Leadership and Expertise (RELAX)” to highlight role of #technicalspecialists as research leaders. @uoe-sps.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #corefacilities
March 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Excited to be awarded funding from WellcomeTrust for InFrame research cultures project for “RTPs : Recognising Leadership and Expertise (RELAX)” to highlight role of #technicalspecialists as research leaders. @uoe-sps.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #corefacilities
Watch this space! ARTIC tools & resources for #mpox sequencing and analysis coming very soon!
#wellcometrust #nanopore #illumina #molecularepidemiology #pathogen #pathogensurviellance #bioinformatics #epidemiology #virus #outbreak #clinicalvirology #sequencing
#wellcometrust #nanopore #illumina #molecularepidemiology #pathogen #pathogensurviellance #bioinformatics #epidemiology #virus #outbreak #clinicalvirology #sequencing
August 23, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Watch this space! ARTIC tools & resources for #mpox sequencing and analysis coming very soon!
#wellcometrust #nanopore #illumina #molecularepidemiology #pathogen #pathogensurviellance #bioinformatics #epidemiology #virus #outbreak #clinicalvirology #sequencing
#wellcometrust #nanopore #illumina #molecularepidemiology #pathogen #pathogensurviellance #bioinformatics #epidemiology #virus #outbreak #clinicalvirology #sequencing
How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?
Help us understand expectations to inform best practice via this survey
forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @WellcomeTrust funded DESTinY
@cochrane.org
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Help us understand expectations to inform best practice via this survey
forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @WellcomeTrust funded DESTinY
@cochrane.org
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?
Help us understand expectations to inform best practice via this survey
forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @WellcomeTrust funded DESTinY
@cochrane.org
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Help us understand expectations to inform best practice via this survey
forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @WellcomeTrust funded DESTinY
@cochrane.org
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Great to connect with IDRC President President Julie Delahanty, wellcometrust CEO Dr. Røttingen, colleagues at the dinner following the Global Health Roundtable. Grateful to Prof. Hoffman & the Global Strategy Lab for bringing us together for meaningful conversations on global health.
September 27, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Great to connect with IDRC President President Julie Delahanty, wellcometrust CEO Dr. Røttingen, colleagues at the dinner following the Global Health Roundtable. Grateful to Prof. Hoffman & the Global Strategy Lab for bringing us together for meaningful conversations on global health.
You know who CAN make a difference though? Funders, Universities, Academies of Science, @wellcometrust@bird.makeup, @ukrio@mstdn.science, @snsf_ch@social.anoxinon.de @DORAssessment@mastodon.world etc… we need your help! 29/n
September 29, 2023 at 8:08 AM
You know who CAN make a difference though? Funders, Universities, Academies of Science, @wellcometrust@bird.makeup, @ukrio@mstdn.science, @snsf_ch@social.anoxinon.de @DORAssessment@mastodon.world etc… we need your help! 29/n
CFP for the @drinkingstudies @womenandalcoho1 conference, co-organised with the @wellcometrust "Drinking Cultures" project, hosted by @drlucycogan at @ucddublin next June. Our theme this year is 'Dangerous Pleasures?'. Please RT (and submit an abstract)
www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-...
www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-...
November 14, 2024 at 7:37 AM
CFP for the @drinkingstudies @womenandalcoho1 conference, co-organised with the @wellcometrust "Drinking Cultures" project, hosted by @drlucycogan at @ucddublin next June. Our theme this year is 'Dangerous Pleasures?'. Please RT (and submit an abstract)
www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-...
www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-...
If you are anywhere near Central London this is a fantastic new free exhibition #WellcomeTrust #TheCultOfBeauty www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
November 3, 2023 at 12:34 PM
If you are anywhere near Central London this is a fantastic new free exhibition #WellcomeTrust #TheCultOfBeauty www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
(1/6) Really jazzed to have this out - my first
@wellcometrust
fellowship paper! biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Can bacteria evolve resistance to competitors' T6SS weaponry? We find that the answer depends on **how many toxins** competitors are using. A thread:
@wellcometrust
fellowship paper! biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Can bacteria evolve resistance to competitors' T6SS weaponry? We find that the answer depends on **how many toxins** competitors are using. A thread:
Multiplicity of Type 6 Secretion System toxins limits the evolution of resistance
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
biorxiv.org
August 2, 2024 at 10:18 AM
(1/6) Really jazzed to have this out - my first
@wellcometrust
fellowship paper! biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Can bacteria evolve resistance to competitors' T6SS weaponry? We find that the answer depends on **how many toxins** competitors are using. A thread:
@wellcometrust
fellowship paper! biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Can bacteria evolve resistance to competitors' T6SS weaponry? We find that the answer depends on **how many toxins** competitors are using. A thread:
William Hunter, Scottish anatomist, obstetrician, died #OTD 1783, established London anatomy school & theatre; landmark work Anatomia informed by rediscovery of Leonardo’s unpublished drawings; Fellow @royalsociety, numismatist.
Ramsay portrait c 1765 @hunterian / @wellcometrust
Ramsay portrait c 1765 @hunterian / @wellcometrust
March 30, 2024 at 6:10 AM
William Hunter, Scottish anatomist, obstetrician, died #OTD 1783, established London anatomy school & theatre; landmark work Anatomia informed by rediscovery of Leonardo’s unpublished drawings; Fellow @royalsociety, numismatist.
Ramsay portrait c 1765 @hunterian / @wellcometrust
Ramsay portrait c 1765 @hunterian / @wellcometrust
Huge honour to help launch #VaccinesInjectingHope at @ScienceCityKol today! Many thanks to the @ncsmgoi @hrBritish @wellcometrust for all their fabulous support
April 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Huge honour to help launch #VaccinesInjectingHope at @ScienceCityKol today! Many thanks to the @ncsmgoi @hrBritish @wellcometrust for all their fabulous support