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Image of the Week: Ebola vaccine trial
This week’s image of the week is shows Dr Felicity Hartnell administering the first dose of a trial Ebola vaccine to volunteer Ruth Atkins. Ms Atkins, who has previously worked as a nurse in the NHS,...
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Researcher Spotlight: Professor Helen McShane
Professor Helen McShane is a Professor of Vaccinology and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Oxford University, where she leads a programme of research to develop a new vaccine for Tuberculosis...
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The Help We’ll Need to Fight Ebola
With the Ebola epidemic continuing to grow – the World Health Organisation reports 10,000 cases and expects a further 10,000 before the epidemic is over – Dr Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 27.10.14
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Treating diabetes with light-activated drugs A new method of treating type 2 diabetes has been developed by researchers at...
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Ebola: Facts Not Fear
The latest WHO figures put the current death toll of the on-going Ebola outbreak at almost 5000, with over 10,000 cases reported in eight countries, mainly those in West Africa. In a series of three...
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Facts not Fear: How do we get the Ebola outbreak under control?
In the second of our “Facts not Fear” posts we ask the experts at the Wellcome Trust about the way the current Ebola outbreak is affecting people and explore some of the options for getting the...
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Facts Not Fear: Will we find a cure?
In the last of our “Facts Not Fear” Ebola Q&A posts we focus on the research being done to find effective vaccines and treatments for Ebola. The Wellcome Trust has partnered with a number of...
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Image of the Week: Sample of an Unknown Soldier
Source: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute This week’s image tells us a story about remembrance. It’s a story that reminds us of the millions of soldiers who lost their lives during World War I, not at...
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What the Wellcome Trust is doing to tackle Ebola
Although the number of headlines about Ebola may have declined in the past week, the number of infections continues to rise in West Africa. Kate Arkless Gray looks at the progress of the epidemic, and...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 24.11.14
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Discovery of gene variant leading to natural typhoid resistance People who carry a particular gene have natural resistance...
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Global Health Histories Explores Antimicrobial Resistance and 20th Century...
Earlier this year a report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that resistance to common antimicrobial drugs has reached alarming levels, with fewer and fewer effective treatment options...
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Developing global expertise in medical mycology and fungal immunology
Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy Farrar meets MRes students in Aberdeen As part of the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award for Medical Mycology and Fungal Immunology (WTSA MMFI), ten international students...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 22.12.14
Our fortnightly round- up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Nationwide project paves way for clinical genetics diagnosis A major nationwide project to genetically diagnose rare...
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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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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...
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Diagnosing Ebola – A day in the life of a diagnostics lab in Sierra Leone
It’s hot, it’s humid and you’re tasked with setting up a diagnostics lab ready to process samples that could contain a deadly virus. You’re far away from home, in a country struggling to contain...
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Discussing Global Health at Davos
Global business and political leaders, economists and intellectuals are descending on the Swiss town of Davos for the World Economic Forum. Among the 2500 participants is a delegation representing the...
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The WHO is critical to global health, but reform is needed
Image credit: Giovanni Maki, Public Library of Science CC-BY The ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa has shone a spotlight on the need for governments, organisations, companies and communities to...
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Wellcome Research Round-up: 26.01.15
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… New insight into genetics of antimalarial drug resistance A global research collaboration has identified 20 mutations in the...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 09/02/2015
Our fortnightly round-up up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Vaccination combats severe diarrhoea in Malawi Research published in Lancet Infectious Diseases has found that the introduction of...
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