Wellcome Trust:
- The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health.
- Established in 1936 and with an endowment of around £15 billion, it is the largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research in the United Kingdom.
DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance:
- Recently, The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under the Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust, UK, celebrated 10 years of their joint partnership.
- The aim of the programme is to help India in becoming a leader in key areas of life sciences and biomedical research.
- The current programme is being delivered by a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), a public trust registered as the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance.
- The Trust receives equal contribution from both DBT and WT for the running the fellowship grant scheme.
- In the past 10 years, the alliance has awarded 320 fellowships to researchers in 93 institutions from India in various areas of biomedical research (human and veterinary).
