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Christmas is cancelled: A report from Ebola-struck Sierra Leone
If you’re heading off to visit family this Christmas, spare a moment for those people in Sierra Leone and Guinea, where Christmas has been cancelled due to the Ebola outbreak. The usual lively...
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It’s time to vote to fight mitochondrial disease
Niamh lost her battle with mitochondrial disease aged just four-and-a-half Pioneering work carried out at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research has led to the development of IVF...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Rachel Freathy
Dr Rachel Freathy is a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on the birth weight of babies and what factors during pregnancy may influence...
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Radio – it’s a powerful medium, but can it save lives?
Radio – the ‘theatre of the mind’ – entertains, informs and can transport us to different worlds through powerful storytelling brought to us via the airwaves. Today, on World Radio Day, Senior...
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Clinical trials not immune from poor quality drugs
There is an increasing body of evidence to suggest that significant quantities of medicines and medical products, especially in low and middle-income countries, are of poor quality. Malaria researcher...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 09/03/2015
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… New therapy developed to treat lung cancer Scientists have developed a new technique that uses gene therapy and stem cell therapy in...
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ProMED: An Early Warning System for Emerging Diseases
The fast and effective communication of reliable information is vital during outbreaks such as the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Combating infectious disease is one of the Trust’s five focus areas,...
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Researcher Spotlight: Professor Lora Heisler
Professor Lora Heisler is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow based at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health at the University of Aberdeen. Her research looks at the mechanisms underlying...
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Experts support a varied approach to Ebola trials
In a letter to the Wall Street Journal today, 19 experts from Africa, Asia, Europe and the US set out their support for the use of a range of clinical trial designs during the Ebola epidemic. The...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Rosemary Green
This week the spotlight shines on Dr Rosemary Green from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. A lecturer in Nutrition and Sustainability, her work is focused around the health and...
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Antibiotic Awareness Week: Seven infections that are getting harder to treat
This week is the first ever global Antibiotic Awareness Week, which aims to increase understanding of how bacteria are evolving to beat our best drugs and what we can do about it. The Wellcome Trust...
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Researcher Spotlight: Prof Jonathan Roiser
Jonathan Roiser is Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, where he is working on understanding how activity of the brain is linked to depression. He...
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Welcoming our African partners to London
At the end of 2015, a little bit of Kenya came to the Wellcome Trust in the form of eight members of staff from the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) who are based in Nairobi. They have established the...
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Zika: Q&A with the infectious disease expert
Laura Rodrigues, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is studying mothers and babies affected by Zika virus in Brazil. Where are you at...
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Gene therapy restores sight in people with inherited blindness
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found gene therapy can return some sight to people with inherited blindness for up to four years after treatment. Scientists used gene therapy to treat...
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