Initiatives

We give one-off or other large-scale special funding, which is generally made outside our main funding mechanisms. Most special initiatives are run in partnership with other bodies.

UK biomedical science

• Wellcome Trust Genome Campus and Sanger Institute
• The SNP Consortium and International HapMap Project
• Ensembl genome browser
• Wellcome Trust Centres
• UK Biobank
• Diamond synchrotron
• Structural Genomics Consortium
• Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
• Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facilities
• Cardiovascular Research Initiative
• Millennium Seed Bank Project

International biomedical science

• Major Overseas Programmes
• Centres for Research in Clinical Tropical Medicine

Public engagement

• Science Learning Centres
• Museums and science centres
• Broadcast media
• Darwin 200

Medical humanities

• Darwin Correspondence Project