The Wellcome Trust today announces that it is to provide ring-fenced funding to support its researchers in their public engagement activities. From 10 October, researchers applying for Wellcome Trust funding will be invited to include proposals for programmes of activity…
Wellcome Trust Call for Proposals: Translation Fund
The Wellcome Trust Translation Awards are designed to bridge the funding gap in the commercialisation of new technologies in the biomedical area. Their aims is to support exceptional individuals with the brightest minds through larger and bolder awards to accelerate product development.…
Innovative Engineering for Health
The Wellcome Trust and the EPSRC are looking to support a limited number of innovative, multi-disciplinary projects designed to address a defined need in healthcare for which current solutions are inadequate or lacking. Priority will be given to projects with…
New 3D imaging technology will make proton therapy the treatment of choice for many cancer patients
The Wellcome Trust has awarded a £1.6 million Translation Award to a research team led by the University of Lincoln to develop more effective radiotherapy treatment for thousands of cancer sufferers. Proton therapy has the ability to deliver high doses…
The Wellcome Trust invites researchers to gamify their PhDs
An innovative new way of communicating science research launches today with Gamify Your PhD, a project from the Wellcome Trust that brings together researchers and games developers to create new games exploring and explaining the latest developments in biomedicine. The…
Wellcome Trust Announces Changes to Translation Funding Schemes
The Wellcome Trust’s Translation Awards and Strategic Translation Awards are merging to create a new Translation Fund. The Wellcome Trust is a committed funder of translational research. A principal means by which it expresses that commitment is through the provision…