Wellcome Trust

The Wellcome Trust is a biomedical research charity based in London, United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome to fund research to improve human and animal health. The aim of the Trust is to “achieve extraordinary improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds”, and in addition to funding biomedical research it supports the public understanding of science. It has an endowment of around 18 billion GBP.

The Trust has been described by the Financial Times as the United Kingdom’s largest provider of non-governmental funding for scientific research and one of the largest providers in the world. In the field of medical research, it is the world’s second-largest private funder

Major Overseas Programmes Africa include:

• The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, established in 1989 in partnership with the Kenya Medical Research Institute.^[14]
• The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, established in 1995.
• The Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in South Africa, established in 1998 in partnership with the South African Medical Research Council.