Researcher Spotlight: Dr Colm Cunningham
On the Wellcome Trust blog we like to celebrate the people and the work that define who we are. In our new Researcher Spotlights series we will introduce you to some of the great people that we fund,...
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Dr Molly Crockett is a research fellow at University College London and the University of Oxford. She currently holds a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship and works on the neural basis of human...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Professor Margaret Robinson
Professor Margaret “Scottie” Robinson holds a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship and is a Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research. Here she tells...
View ArticleHow to return to a research career after a break from the lab
The Wellcome Trust Research Career Re-Entry Fellowships (RCREF) support people who want to return to science following a substantial break (2 years or more). Getting back to a career in research is...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Dr Kenneth Baillie
Dr Kenneth Baillie is a consultant in critical care medicine at the Intensive Care Unit of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He holds Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship and works at the Roslin...
View ArticleWellcome Trust Research Round-up: 08.12.14
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Competition and climate change may help exotic parasites spread to UK honeybees Scientists have found that an exotic...
View ArticleIs it time for you to join the Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowship?
Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellows 2014 – Alex Julyan, Brian Lobel, Daniel Bird. Interested in becoming a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow? Find out what we’re looking for, and what makes this scheme...
View ArticleHow the Wellcome Trust Spends its Money
The most recent Wellcome Trust annual report showed healthy returns on our investment portfolio, which should allow us to spend in excess of £4 billion in the period 2014-2019. But where do we spend...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Dr Daniel Streicker
Dr Daniel Streicker is a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the University of Glasgow. His research looks at the way that pathogens are transmitted between species, with a hope that...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Dr Julija Krupic
Dr Julija Krupic developed a fascination with the way the brain maps the environment during her MRes. Since then she’s not looked back – securing a PhD with Prof John O’Keefe and a Sir Henry Wellcome...
View ArticleWellcome Trust Research Round-up: 30.03.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… New insight into TB immune evasion A new version of a gene, that may help to explain why some people are more susceptible to TB than...
View ArticleResearcher 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...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Dr Rebeccah Slater
Dr Rebeccah Slater is a Research Career Development Fellow based at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding infants’ experience of pain using brain-imaging and how we can...
View ArticleImage of the Week: Pop-up surgery
This week, Sophie Tunstall-Behrens from our Engaging Science team gives us an insight into the world of the operating theatre… Our image of the week shows Professor Roger Kneebone, a Wellcome Trust...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Prof Vikram Patel
Vikram Patel is Professor of International Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is based at the Public Health Foundation of India and Sangath, India. He has recently...
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