Qualla: Wellcome Trust https://qualla.com/wellcome-trust en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wellcome-trust-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Wellcome Trust https://qualla.com/wellcome-trust Wellcome Trust: Introduction https://qualla.com/wellcome-trust/ Photo credit D Wells, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1995, the Wellcome Trust sold its last shares in a pharmaceutical company and walked away from drug manufacturing forever. The company it sold to was Glaxo plc, which used the acquisition to begin a consolidation that would eventually produce GlaxoSmithKline. The Trust pocketed billions and reinvested them not in pills but in science — funding research, building institutions, and eventually accumulating an endowment that by 2025 stood at £37.6 billion. Henry Wellcome, the Wisconsin-born entrepreneur who founded Burroughs Wellcome in 1880, had left behind something unexpected: one of the most consequential health research charities in human history.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wellcome-trust-wp/gcpv-wellcome-trust-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wellcome Trust: The Man Behind the Money https://qualla.com/wellcome-trust/ Photo credit Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0. Henry Wellcome was an unlikely figure to endow a global scientific empire. He grew up in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the son of a frontier preacher, and made his name by co-founding a pharmaceutical company that pioneered compressed medicine tablets — the forerunner of modern pills....

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wellcome-trust-wp/gcpv-wellcome-trust-the-man-behind-the-money.mp3 0:06 2 full Wellcome Trust: What £37 Billion Funds https://qualla.com/wellcome-trust/ Photo credit Duncan Hull, CC BY 2.0. The Trust's reach is extraordinary in scope. Its funded programmes include the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a world-leading genomics and genetics research centre in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire; the UK Biobank, a long-term health database of half a million British participants; th...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wellcome-trust-wp/gcpv-wellcome-trust-what-37-billion-funds.mp3 0:06 3 full Wellcome Trust: A Public Face on Euston Road https://qualla.com/wellcome-trust/ Photo credit Oxyman, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Trust operates from two buildings on Euston Road in London. The original Wellcome Building at 183 Euston Road, built in 1932 in Portland stone, houses the Wellcome Collection — a free public museum that explores the connections between medicine, history, and art. Alongside it...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wellcome-trust-wp/gcpv-wellcome-trust-a-public-face-on-euston-road.mp3 0:06 4 full Wellcome Trust: Scrutiny and Scale https://qualla.com/wellcome-trust/ Photo credit Public domain. An organisation this large does not escape criticism. Reports have noted that the Trust holds investments in pharmaceutical companies directly involved in the health challenges it claims to combat — a structural tension inherent in charitable foundations that grow through commerc...

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