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Putting you in the Picture – Genes, Genomes and Health
The cover of Big Picture: Genes, Genomes and Health As some of our recent posts this past month have shown, genetics, genomes and health have featured heavily in the news, from the recently announced...
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Low-income countries get free access to medical text
Ethiopian doctors writing up their notes in an office on the Paediatric ward. A new Wellcome Trust sponsorship is helping doctors and healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries gain free...
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“Is your mind closed to open innovation?”
Dr Martino Picardo, CEO of Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst “Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) is the UK’s first open innovation bioscience campus, due to open at the beginning of next year. Backed by a...
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Life as a twin-ea pig: Back to the Twin Research Unit
I fell on the four-finger KitKat like a woman possessed. It was nearly 8 hours since my sister and I had eaten. In the meantime, we’d been scanned, weighed, measured and bled. Never had chocolate...
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Q&A: Dr Anoop Shah on using data from health records
Dr Anoop Shah Information from health records can be extremely useful in medical research, but at the moment not all the data can be extracted automatically. At University College London, Dr Anoop...
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Open science and hacking
This weekend sees developers and scientists converge in London for the first Wellcome Trust Hackathon. Kevin Fong tells us what a hack is and why we’re running one around ‘open’. ‘Open’ has become the...
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Access all areas? Opening up the challenges of sharing data in research
The Wellcome Trust supports Open Access to journal articles, book chapters and monographs published by our researchers. But there is another important area where openness and sharing may also have...
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First Wellcome Trust open access book looks at history of fungal disease
Earlier this year, the Wellcome Trust extended its open access policy to include monographs and scholarly publications, and today our first open access monograph is published, a history of fungal...
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Will you share your patient records?
The Wellcome Trust has long been a strong advocate of making the best use of data resources, and this includes information in our health records. The Trust is this week funding a national advertising...
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The impact of EU data regulation on research
New amendments to Data Protection Regulation are currently making their way through the European Parliament which could affect how researchers can access personal data. Beth Thompson, a Policy Adviser...
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The cost of open access publishing: a progress report
The Wellcome Trust recently published details of how much it spent on open access publishing in the year 2012-2013 in an attempt to make the debate around the costs of open access publishing more...
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Data Sharing: Creating Incentives and Changing Cultures
A new report from the Expert Advisory Group on Data Access (EAGDA) discusses the need for a fundamental cultural shift in the research community to incentivise and support researchers in sharing data....
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Ensuring your genes don’t affect your insurance
The Progress Educational Trust (PET)’s recent Wellcome-supported event ‘Risk Management: Breast Cancer, Business and Patents‘ looked at how insurance companies can and can’t use genetic information to...
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Keeping open access simple
Piece of cake? The Wellcome Trust believes that access to the published outputs of research should be open and unrestricted. But, argue Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services at Wellcome Library, and...
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The Discoverability Challenge – How Can We Make Research Data Easier to Find...
Enhancing the discoverability of public health and epidemiology research data is a key to ensuring that it gets more widely used. This was the topic of a recent workshop hosted by the London School of...
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How to Succeed at Open Innovation
Today we launch “Shaping the Future of Open Innovation: A practical guide for life sciences organisations”, a new resource created by a collaboration led by the Wellcome Trust, the Centre for the...
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Unknown unknowns: Is there a selection bias against null results?
As a large funder of biomedical research, the Wellcome Trust is keen to ensure that the findings of that research are widely and openly shared. There is a body of evidence that indicates a bias...
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An INDEPTH Look at Mortality Data
The INDEPTH network has today released a massive amount of information about cause of death from countries in Africa and Asia. Up until now such information was patchy, limited to single sites and...
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Safeguarding the Status Quo: Privacy and Possibility in Research
Individuals’ health data is vital resource for health research and researchers have used this data for decades to understand more about the factors underpinning health and disease. Using large data...
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How the Wellcome Trust Spends its Money
The most recent Wellcome Trust annual report showed healthy returns on our investment portfolio, which should allow us to spend in excess of £4 billion in the period 2014-2019. But where do we spend...
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