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Zika: Q&A with the mapping expert

Simon Hay is Director of Geospatial Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington, Research Fellow in the Sciences and...

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Zika: Q&A with the climate expert

Madeleine Thomson directs the WHO Collaborating Centre on Malaria Early Warning Systems and Other Climate Sensitive Diseases at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth...

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Zika: Q&A with the medical anthropologist

Sharon Abramowitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Center for African Studies, University of Florida What do you do? As a medical anthropologist in West Africa, I teach, research...

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Public Engagement Events Listing – March 2016

Spring is on the way, so with the days getting lighter and longer, it’s time to get out and along to one of these excellent Wellcome Trust supported events (but there’s plenty to tune into from home...

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€1m Brain Prize awarded to three British neuroscientists

  Three British neuroscientists have been awarded the world’s most valuable prize for brain research for their outstanding work on the mechanisms of memory. This year’s winners of the €1m Euro Brain...

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Image of the Week: Zika

The Zika virus appears to have emerged from nowhere, causing widespread health concerns throughout the world after decades of relative silence. Why has this occurred now, and what can we do to prevent...

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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 07.03.16

Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Deep roots Complete sequencing of Aboriginal Australian men’s Y chromosome reveals a long genetic history that stretches back 50,000...

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How do people feel about companies accessing health data?

The Wellcome Trust recently commissioned Ipsos MORI to look into what people think about commercial organisations having access to health data from patient records. Although a better system of access...

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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 04.04.16

Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust research community. An apple a day Increasing the amount of fruit and vegetables we eat may significantly reduce the progression of cataracts, a...

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The ethics of Zika trials in pregnancy

Exploring the ethics of involving pregnant women in clinical trials for diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccines for Zika virus is one of five new research projects funded by the Wellcome Trust and...

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New funding to tackle urgent African health challenges

  Research teams in Ivory Coast, Kenya, Senegal and Uganda have been given a further £21 million through the DELTAS Africa initiative, which will support world class health research and help train the...

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Trial of experimental Ebola treatment publishes results

  Results from a clinical trial of the experimental anti-Ebola drug TKM-130803 in Sierra Leone have shown that, at the dose given, the treatment did not improve survival in people with the disease. The...

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Gene therapy restores sight in people with inherited blindness

Researchers at the University of Oxford have found gene therapy can return some sight to people with inherited blindness for up to four years after treatment.  Scientists used gene therapy to treat...

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Public Engagement Events Listing – May 2016

With two bank holidays this month, what better way to spend them than enjoying one of our fantastic Wellcome Trust supported events? Exhibitions Jacqueline Donachie: deep in the heart of your brain –...

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Launching today: our new website!

Today we launched our new website. It has been designed to put our users’ needs first, be accessible to all, work well across all screen sizes and better serve our international audiences. As explained...

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