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10 unusual facts about Wellcome Trust


Euston Square tube station

In late 2006 the new entrance on the south side of Euston Road opened in a corner of the new headquarters of the Wellcome Trust replacing the old entrance.

Guru Magazine

Guru Magazine is an online crowd-sourced magazine supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Hybrid open access journal

On October 19, 2009, one such funding agency, the Wellcome Trust, expressed concerns about hybrid open-access fees being paid twice, through subscriptions and through publication fees.

Neglected tropical disease research and development

Support for these centers is frequently traced to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Sandler Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust.

Open access mandate

Among the funding organizations that haveadopted open-access mandates for grant recipients are National Institutes of Health (with the NIH Public Access Policy), Research Councils UK, National Fund for Scientific Research, Wellcome Trust and European Research Council.

ORCID

Others are research institutions (among them Caltech and Cornell University), commercial companies including Thomson Reuters, academic societies and a charitable foundation, the Wellcome Trust.

Paul Luzio

Luzio's research is largely concerned with intracellular membrane traffic pathways in mammalian cells and his research group is funded by a programme grant from the Medical Research Council and project grant support from the Wellcome Trust.

The Great Plant Hunt

The Great Plant Hunt is a primary school plant science learning initiative, developed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Wellcome Trust

The Trust was established to administer the fortune of the American-born pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome.

West End, Dundee

The university’s College of Life Sciences located on Hawkhill incorporates the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, Sir James W. Black Centre, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Cancer Research UK Centre laboratories.


Academic Spring

Mark Walport, the director of Wellcome Trust, has indicated that science sponsors don't mind having to fund publication in addition to the research.

Cecil Hoare

He left Russia in 1920, and joined the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research in London, under Charles Morley Wenyon.

David Cooksey

He was a Governor of the Wellcome Trust from 1995 to 1999, and was Chairman of the Board of Directors at Diamond Light Source Ltd from its formation in 2002 until September 2008.

John Tooke

Tooke graduated in Medicine from St John's College, Oxford in 1974 and went on to become a Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Physiology and Honorary Consultant Physician at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School before moving to the Postgraduate Medical School of the University of Exeter in 1987.

Marta Mirazón Lahr

In 2001 Lahr, with co-founder Robert Foley, established the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES) at the University of Cambridge, with funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Leverhulme Trust.

Ron Laskey

In 1991, he co-founded the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Campaign Institute (now known as the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute), along with five other senior scientists including Professor Sir John Gurdon.

Structural Genomics Consortium

The SGC is supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust, GSK, Novartis, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Takeda, Abbott, Life Technologies, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Genome Canada, the Ontario's Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation (MEDI).

The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

University of Cambridge is Director of the project; James Secord of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge and Janet Browne of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London were the principal investigators for the grant.