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The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of Burroughs Wellcome, one of the predecessors of GSK plc) to fund research to improve human and animal health.
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust United States: New York City: $8.3 billion 1999 [30] 27 W. K. Kellogg Foundation Trust United States: Battle Creek, Michigan: $8.2 billion 1930 [31] 28 Jacobs Foundation Switzerland: Zürich: $7.6 billion CHF7 billion 2001 [32] 29 Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung Germany: Bad Homburg: $7 billion
The Wellcome Trust moved its administrative offices into their new Gibbs Building (designed for the Trust by Michael Hopkins and Partners) on the adjoining site in Euston Road, completed 2004: thereby creating an opportunity for a new public venue in the old Wellcome Building. The collection opened to the public in June 2007.
Wellcome Trust: 445,220 [37] Jeremy Farrar 2017 1,134,000,000 [38] 2017 0.039% The below table shows the inflation-adjusted, equivalent value of 100 British pounds in ...
The Campus is home to some institutes and organisations in genomics and computational biology.The Campus is part of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health, and houses the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the bioinformatics outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and a number of biotech ...
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund was founded in 1955 as an American extension of the Wellcome Trust in England. These foundations trace their origins to the American pharmaceutical magnates Henry Wellcome and Silas Burroughs, who founded Burroughs Wellcome and Co. in England in 1880.
wellcome.ac.uk /funding /principal-research-fellowships Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowships are research fellowships awarded to scientists who are recognised by the Wellcome Trust as having "international standing with an established track record in research at the highest level."
Sir Jeremy James Farrar (born 1 September 1961) [6] is a British medical researcher who has served as Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization since 2023. [8] He was previously the director of The Wellcome Trust from 2013 to 2023 and a professor of tropical medicine at the University of Oxford.