Diagnosing Ebola in Sierra Leone
Wellcome-funded virologist Professor Ian Goodfellow is usually based in the Division of Virology at the University of Cambridge, but he recently took a break from his usual research to travel to...
View ArticleResearcher 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...
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 Arun Shukla
Dr Arun Shukla is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the largest group of cell surface...
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 ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Dr Thomas Ezard
Dr Thomas Ezard is a NERC Advanced Research Fellow and holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator award. Based at the University of Southampton, his research looks at the way events such as wars, outbreaks of...
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 ArticleResearcher 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...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Alex Julyan
Artist Alex Julyan is one of our Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellows. Her work takes her from festivals to hospital waiting rooms, exploring the relationship between the architecture of healthcare...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Naomi Penfold
Naomi Penfold has a four-year MRes plus PhD programme studentship from the Wellcome Trust, and is currently working towards her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on the way that...
View ArticleWhat is genome editing and how does it work?
New scientific techniques are constantly being developed, and some of them have the potential to make a large impact on future research and have possible applications for health. One technique showing...
View ArticleWelcoming our new Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellows
We’re pleased to announce our three new Engagement Fellows for 2015 – Bella Starling, Delia Muir and Steve Cross – who begin their two-year Fellowships this month. They will be working on projects that...
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...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Louise Powell
Louise Powell is doing an MA in Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies with a focus on the way twins are represented 17th century literature. She recently got a Wellcome Trust bursary for...
View ArticleResearcher 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...
View ArticleResearcher Spotlight: Dr Martyn Pickersgill
Dr Martyn Pickersgill is a Wellcome Trust Reader in Social Studies of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh. His work looks at the social, legal and ethical dimensions of biomedicine and health...
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