Annual Review 2011: Focus area 1 - Supporting outstanding researchers

We believe passionately that breakthroughs emerge when the most talented researchers are given the resources and freedom they need to pursue their goals.

In this year's ‘Annual Review’, you can read about our new funding scheme, Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards, which aims to give world-class scientists more freedom to drive advances in their field. Other activities this year included the opening of new research facilities in Hanoi, Vietnam, the first ever Engagement Fellowships to promote and develop public engagement with science, significant progress in the development of the Francis Crick Institute and plans for a new open-access research journal in partnership with the Max Planck Society and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Further resources

Here are links to information relating to each of this year's 'Annual Review' stories in focus area 1:

Investigator Awards (page 9)

New research facilities in Hanoi (page 10)

Engaging fellows (page 10)

Francis Crick Institute (page 10)

New research journal (page 11)

Image: Professor Sara Rankin of Imperial College London, one of the first cadre of Wellcome Trust Senior Investigators. Credit: Wellcome Images