Lisa Heinrich

Ad for a car subscription company. Poster shows a family in front of a car. Women in superhero outfit. Text says in German: Finn is like mom, takes care of everything. In smaller font below: ‘So mom can take a break: the car in a full service package’

Ads like these are the reason that the mental load is still predominantly on women. Stop labeling mothers as the ones that ‘take care of everything’. Can we move on from this mom as superhero fetish that ‘does it all’? (Text in English: Finn is like mom. Takes care of everything)

Benny Prawira, Lived Experience Advisor at Wellcome says, "My wish is that new psychosocial interventions can do more than just make youth 'feel better' – but actually help them stay in school, find jobs and rebuild relationships."

We want to transform early intervention for youth mental health.

Our new funding award will help achieve this.

We're supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of effective social and psychological interventions.

Applications close 11 Nov ⤵️
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Why global health needs change – an interview with John-Arne Røttingen Visit the post for more.

Great article from Wellcome CEO @jarottingen.bsky.social in @politico.com on the need to reform global health and the great work @wellcometrust.bsky.social are doing to develop thinking in this area.

For sure a big role for R&D!

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*Proud big sister*: Huge congrats to @lukasheinrich.com on receiving the ERC grant. What an achievement and so well deserved given your hard work on this. 🎉🥹

How can England possibly be running out of water? While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Doctoral Programmes for Healthcare Professionals | Grant funding | Wellcome Get guidance on applying to host and administer a Wellcome doctoral programme for healthcare professionals at your institution. Find out about eligibility and how to prepare for your application.

Healthcare professionals bring unique perspectives to discovery research.

That’s why we’re funding doctoral programmes for UK-registered healthcare professionals.

Applications open in October. Find out how you can prepare ⤵️
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New mental health funding open for applications!

We’re supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of social and psychological interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people.

Wellcome’s Kim Donoghue explains more ⤵️
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📢 Contract Opportunity! | Sumi Subramaniam 📢 Contract Opportunity! Wellcome Trust are looking for a service and delivery partner to bring together the Gram-negative antibiotic discovery innovator consortium   Earlier this year Gates Foundation...

Sharing my colleagues post on Contract Opportunities at Wellcome Trust. We are looking for a service and delivery partner to bring together the Gram-negative antibiotic discovery innovator consortium. www.linkedin.com/posts/sumi-s...

I manage a local suicide database. I knew that older men are at higher risk to die by suicide, but seeing data coming in case-wise makes a difference. Where's the outcry? Hardly any! Are older men (unconsciously) perceived as being expendable?

Cuts to the UK aid budget have led to the closure of the Fleming Fund, which has been tackling the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance.

My team wrote a report on the UK's role in global R&D. Take a look!

‘Huge advances in cancer and rare diseases’: 25 years of the human genome – podcast It’s been 25 years since Bill Clinton announced one of humanity’s most important scientific achievements: the first draft of the human genome. At the time, there was a great deal of excitement about t...

‘Huge advances in cancer and rare diseases’: 25 years of the human genome 🧬

Our Director, Matt Hurles, spoke to the Guardian @scienceweekly.bsky.social podcast about the Human Genome Project, and what could be in store over the next 25 years 🎧

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Researchers take first steps to creating synthetic human genomes | Wellcome Scientists are developing technology to create the first synthetic human chromosome. The ability to write large genomes could transform our understanding of health.

Scientists are taking the first steps towards the first synthetic human genome.

We’re proud to announce £10 million funding for the SynHG project.

Learn more ⤵️
wellcome.org/news/researc...

We want to transform early intervention for youth mental health. 
 
Our new funding award will help achieve this. 
  
Across two phases, it aims to accelerate the development and roll out of effective psychological and social interventions. 🧵[1/4]

A livestream of the event ‘Temperatures Rising: Preparing and Protecting for Extreme Heat’ is taking place on 21 May 08.00 BST. Join Wellcome, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) and global leaders on the need to act on unprecedented and increasingly deadly extreme temperatures. Image shows a man silhouetted against the sun as he bathes on a hot summer day.

Increasing temperatures can seriously affect our health, wellbeing and work.

The good news? There are things we can do about it.

Tune in to our livestream at the World Health Assembly on 21 May to learn how we can prepare and protect against extreme heat: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ff5ec...

Health Minister urged to prioritise investment and action on climate health Introduction by Croakey: A global health organisation has urged Australia and other member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO)

Important & timely article, with 78th World Health Assembly this week:
Australian Health Minister urged to prioritise investment and action on climate health
www.croakey.org/health-minis...
#WHA78
#AusPol

Killer fungi to spread as climate heats up [FREE TO READ] A warming world accelerates rise of infection-causing species in echo of television series ‘The Last of Us’

Fungi are everywhere.

They’re in the air, in the soil and inside our bodies.

And as climate change drives fungi to adapt, their impact on our health is changing.
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Major tuberculosis vaccine trial completes enrollment faster than expected A closely watched clinical trial testing what could be the world’s first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century has hit its enrollment target, ahead of expectations.

Could this be the first new TB vaccine in over a century?

The phase 3 clinical trial for the M72 vaccine just hit an important milestone – 11 months ahead of schedule.

The trial has now reached its target of recruiting 20,000 participants across 54 sites ⤵️
www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/m...

Reviews of Reviewer(s): G Lugo-Villarino & T Lodhiya (Université de Toulouse) | 📘📘📘📘📘 • I Kramnik (Boston University) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • H Hong (University of Pennsylvania) | 📘📘📘📘📘

🚨🚨New in: Study reveals tuberculosis granulomas contain hypoxic zones with dysfunctional immune cells, allowing bacteria to persist—explaining why TB is hard to cure and suggesting new therapeutic targets.
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Policy Adviser Salary: £ 61,400 Closing date:  Wednesday, 7 May 2025 Contract type: Permanent The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy a...

🚨Hiring!

I’m recruiting two new Policy Advisers to join my team
💷 £61,400
⏰ 7 May

It’s an exciting time to join this growing and evolving team working on UK and global science policy

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They went for 11 minutes … 11 f**in‘ minutes.

Are you looking for mental health research funding?
 
We’re offering up to £5 million per award to use longitudinal datasets to find early signs of anxiety, depression or psychosis.
 
Read on to find more about the call ⤵️ [1/4]

National data service will simplify access to health data for research | News | Wellcome Wellcome is partnering with the UK Government to establish a £600 million health data research service. It will simplify secure access to health data for research.

There’s so much we can learn from health data.

Our new partnership with the UK Government aims to unlock it.

By simplifying access to secure data for research, we can improve understanding of ill health and accelerate discoveries that improve health.

Read more ⤵️
wellcome.org/news/nationa...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

A row has been brewing about European Commission plans to roll the successor programme to Horizon Europe into a European competitiveness fund.

But the sector, European Parliament and ministers want a standalone programme. Will the Commission back down?

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/euro...

Climate Impacts Awards - Grant Funding | Wellcome The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale.

Looking for climate and health funding?

Our Climate Impacts Awards will support projects that can drive climate policy action at scale by making the impacts of climate change more visible.

💰 Level: Up to £2.5 million
💡 Duration: Up to 3 years
🗓️ Deadline: 30 April 2025

Learn more ⤵️

A quote from Madeleine Thomson, Head of Impacts and Adaptation at Wellcome. The quote reads "We need urgent climate action to protect people and our planet. To do that, we must make the health impacts of climate change visible." A photo of Madeleine shows her smiling at the camera, looking kind and determined. She has short grey hair, glasses and a red blazer over a black shirt.

The impacts of climate change on our physical and mental health aren’t always visible. 
 
Why? [1/4]

Climate Impacts Awards - Grant Funding | Wellcome The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale.

We’re funding projects that can drive climate policy action at scale by making the impacts of climate change more visible.

Interested to learn more and ask questions about the funding? We’re hosting a webinar on 3 March 2025 to discuss everything you need to know.

Register to join the webinar ⤵️

CEPI, Brown, NTI Partner with Rising Leaders to Take Biological Threats off the Table

At the @munsecconf.bsky.social, we w/ @cepivaccines.bsky.social, @nti.org, & @foreignpolicy.com, met with rising biosecurity leaders from the Global South & top decision-makers to identify actions to improve biosecurity & the #100DaysMission. Together they’ve crafted an exciting declaration.

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Sick city “I’m telling you, life is chaotic, complicated, and unjust”, world-weary paramedic Olaf (Bernhard Schütz) tells his young colleague Olivia (Samirah Breuer). This is more or less the thesis of Apple TV...

"I’m telling you, life is chaotic, complicated, and unjust."

My @thelancet.bsky.social review of frighteningly honest Apple TV+ medical drama Berlin ER/Krank Berlin, which starts streaming next week.

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