Wellcome

Wellcome improves health for everyone by funding research, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building global partnerships. 

Wellcome supports bold and creative discovery research that has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing. This includes research into the:  

• fundamental processes that underpin biology, to understand more about how life works 
• complexities of human health and disease, including clinical and population-based approaches
• development of methodologies, conceptual frameworks, technologies, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research 
• needs, values and priorities of the people and communities affected by disease and health disparities
• social, cultural, political and historical contexts of human health and disease.

Wellcome funds host organisations base in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Low- or middle-income countries (apart from India and mainland China).