Beth Thompson

Wellcome Annual Report 2025 | Reports | Wellcome Find out about Wellcome’s impact in 2024/25, with notes from our Chair and CEO, reports on what we did last year and reviews of our finances and investments.

Science can transform lives, but only if it reaches the people who need it most.

That's why, last year, we invested £1.9 billion combining discovery with solutions and real-world action.

Explore the impact in our annual report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...

Remembering our friend Alessandro Coatti | PET Following the death of Alessandro Coatti – an expert in science and policy aspects of genome editing, who was much loved by his friends and colleagues – Sandy Starr and Sophia McCully pay tribute...

Remembering our friend Alessandro Coatti
Sandy Starr and Sophia McCully write a moving tribute in BioNews. Ale, he was an expert in science and policy aspects of genome editing - and a much moved friend.
www.progress.org.uk/remembering-...

#genetics #genomtics #geneediting #Obituary #DNA

Our partnership will enable the service to be set up at speed and with patient benefit at its heart.

We are excited to get started on delivery, built on a foundation of patient and user engagement.

National data service will simplify access to health data for research | Wellcome Wellcome is partnering with the UK Government to establish a £600 million health data research service. It will simplify secure access to health data for research.

@wellcometrust.bsky.social & UK Government are investing up to £600m to deliver a new Health Data Research Service, simplifying secure access to health data to speed up research to understand and treat diseases.

wellcome.org/news/nationa...

Welcome’s submission to the UK Spending Review:

📈 Increase R&D intensity - invest £22bn in R&D in 2026/27 and set a longer-term ambition to become the most R&D intensive economy in the G7

🏫 Fix the funding environment for UK universities to support their financial sustainability

From research to reality | Reports | Wellcome This report sets out a vision for science to be embedded at the heart of the UK National Health Service (NHS).

🔥New report out now from @wellcometrust.bsky.social @nestauk.bsky.social, supported by @randeurope.org:

A vision for a research and innovation powered NHS

Read more on why these changes are so important and how we can make them happen 👇🏻
wellcome.org/reports/from...

Durham and Cardiff universities to cut hundreds of jobs The Russell Group universities, which also plan to cut courses such as nursing and music, are struggling with a funding shortfall

“The news of university job losses is a stark reminder of the precarious financial situation facing the sector. This instability not only threatens the UK’s role as a leader in science but also the country’s ambitions for long-term economic growth” @drbeththompson.bsky.social at Wellcome

Durham and Cardiff universities to cut hundreds of jobs The Russell Group universities, which also plan to cut courses such as nursing and music, are struggling with a funding shortfall

News of job losses at Durham and Cardiff is a stark reminder of the precarious financial situation facing UK universities.

More from @wellcometrust.bsky.social in today's Times --

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Our annual report is out today, with highlights from an exciting year at Wellcome 👇🏻

13 people standing in front of a Christmas tree, with copies of 100 Carols for Choirs

Thank you University College London Hospitals for hosting Wellcome Voices choir for carols today.

We had a wonderful audience at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals!

Bringing festive cheer through song is the perfect way to end the @wellcometrust.bsky.social year 🎄🎵

Researcher | Institute for Government We are inviting applications for researchers, to start as soon as notice periods allow.

Fantastic opportunity to join the @instituteforgov.bsky.social as a researcher - please flag to all the brilliant people you know! www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...

UK clinical trials performance improves but remains in intensive care A new report finds the UK’s global rankings for industry clinical trial delivery are improving but further challenges must be overcome.

ABPI's annual report on UK industry clinical trials out today.

A mixed review:

📈number of trials up for the second year in a row
📉participants in interventional trials are down

More, including actions for improvement - bit.ly/49urBSd

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