We're helping create a healthier future for everyone through research.
We’re spending £16 billion in the decade to 2032 on research and advocacy supporting science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.
People we fund generate new knowledge about life, health and wellbeing. Discoveries made today will transform health in ways we can't yet imagine. That's why our outlook is broad, from cells to societies, physical sciences to cultural inquiry, including Wellcome Collection.
We're also bringing together expertise from across science, innovation and society to find equitable solutions in climate and health, infectious disease, and mental health.
To achieve all of this, our work focuses on four programmes.
Our long-term funding spans all fields and disciplines. Our goal is to generate new knowledge that will improve health. We call this discovery research.
From humanities and social sciences, to genomics and clinical research, we're supporting researchers across their careers and creating opportunities to unlock potential.
We support research and policy development that's putting health at the centre of climate change action.
We're enabling interventions that reduce the risk and impact of infectious disease.
We're supporting a step change in early interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis.
We're financially and politically independent. This gives us a unique position to fund ambitious research around the world, across all fields and disciplines.
We bring together governments, affected communities, funders and organisations from across the world to advocate for evidence-based policies that improve health.
We're breaking down barriers to make research environments more open, engaged, ethical and efficient.
We are a founding member of CEPI: an innovative global partnership accelerating the development of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases, such as Covid-19.
We co-funded a landmark project advancing genomic techniques. Today the finished human genome sequence is an essential, accessible resource.
We support the work of the Lancet Countdown. This report updates and holds world leaders accountable for their role in combatting climate change.
Find out how Wellcome performed in 2022/23, with commentaries from our Chair and Director, reports on what we did last year and reviews of our finances and investments.