{"id":1669,"date":"2023-09-18T04:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T04:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sltr.local\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2023-09-18T04:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T04:31:11","slug":"wellcome-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/funding\/wellcome-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellcome Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"publication-container\" class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-85967e23 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-33811260\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Wellcome Trust<\/strong>\u00a0is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate\u00a0Henry Wellcome\u00a0(founder of one of the predecessors of\u00a0GlaxoSmithKline) to fund research to improve human and animal health. The aim of the Trust is to &#8220;support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.&#8221; It had a\u00a0financial endowment\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pound_sterling\">\u00a3<\/a>29.1\u00a0billion in 2020,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wellcome_Trust#cite_note-endowment-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0making it the fourth\u00a0wealthiest charitable foundation\u00a0in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Wellcome Trust\u00a0is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate\u00a0Henry Wellcome\u00a0(founder of one of the predecessors of\u00a0GlaxoSmithKline) to fund research to improve human and animal health. 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