Every 16 seconds a baby is stillborn. We need better ways to assess gestational development in utero. The Irish Times recently published an article about the FeMo project being developed as part of the wellcomeleap.org/inutero program. In Utero is focused on cutting stillbirth rates in half by creating scalable methods to measure, model, and predict gestational development. One of the ways we are addressing this goal is with FeMo, a fetal monitoring device that tracks movements during development. Research and product development is being led by Niamh Nowlan, a professor of biomedical engineering University College Dublin. https://lnkd.in/gx7q4U5m
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Wellcome Leap builds bold, unconventional programs and funds them at scale.
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Wellcome Leap was established to accelerate discovery and innovation for the benefit of human health. Wellcome Leap builds bold, unconventional programs and funds them at scale—programs that target global human health challenges, with the goal of achieving breakthrough scientific and technological solutions.
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In the current Devex report “5 Innovations in Global Health” our partner on the R3 - RNA Readiness and Response program, CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) CEO Richard Hatchett speaks to our goal of enabling the development of RNA biofoundries which would allow innovators developing biologics to have more access to manufacturing. For the full report, click below. https://lnkd.in/eKwS8WmE
What innovations are happening in global health right now? A new Devex report names monoclonal antibodies—mAbs—as a key innovation driving progress in global health. The report highlights how mAbs can be deployed during an outbreak, as well as CEPI's recent investment in Nipah mAb development (https://lnkd.in/ezk7vf6Y). If you want to know more about the role of mAbs alongside vaccines in ending pandemic threats, check out our illustrated blog: https://lnkd.in/ecYuh_vP Alongside using #AI to prepare for #DiseaseX, novel vaccine development, including the use of RNA, is also listed in the report as another health innovation. CEPI's CEO, Richard Hatchett, explains in the report how AI can accelerate vaccine innovation, highlighting CEPI's recent investment in Apriori Bio's AI platform, which could help to design variant-resilient vaccines against evolving viruses (https://lnkd.in/eS62arp2) Hatchett also discusses how diversifying vaccine manufacturing capabilities in the Global South will help to increase access and avoid some of the tragic inequities seen during COVID-19. Download the full report to discover more about these global health innovations ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eKwS8WmE
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Announcing Phase 2 awards in our Quantum for Bio supported challenge program. Congratulations! https://lnkd.in/gdz7YKfP
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Congratulations to Thymmune Therapeutics on this $37M award to advance their pioneering thymic cell therapy, which has the long-term potential to boost immunity in the aging population. Thymmune developed an engineered thymus capable of restoring immune function in animal models as part of the Wellcome Leap HOPE program and is now advancing along the path towards human clinical trials.
‘We want to give everyone a new thymus to reboot their immune system’ Thymmune Therapeutics founder Stan Wang, MD, PhD says ARPA-H funding will bring ‘off-the-shelf’ thymus rejuvenation technology to human clinical trials. #longevity #immune #rejuvenation
‘We want to give everyone a new thymus to reboot their immune system’
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We're pleased to announce the global team of performers selected for Wellcome Leap's $50M Untangling Addiction program. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gqiZa3m3
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Welcome, John-Arne!
Today, I’m immensely excited to begin my new role as Wellcome Trust’s CEO. It is a privilege to lead Wellcome, an organisation I have long admired. I look forward to working alongside my new colleagues in London and Germany to deliver on our mission to support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. I’ll be spending my first few months in London learning more about the organisation’s work, travelling to key research institutions in the UK and visiting researchers in our programmes across Africa and Asia. I hope to have the opportunity to meet many of you and am optimistic about the positive change we can create together.
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Worldwide, someone dies from drug or alcohol addiction every 4 minutes. Wellcome Leap's $50M Untangling Addiction program aims to quantify addiction susceptibility to a range of substances, inclusive of prescription opioids, and develop individualized treatments guided by biological markers. The goal — reduce the risk of addiction and double treatment success. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3QHORn2
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Working together on something that matters — congratulations Stan Wang, MD, PhD and Thymmune Therapeutics!
As the first biotech startup funded by Wellcome Leap in its inaugural HOPE program, we at Thymmune are proud to be continuing the work at scale as the first biotech funded through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)'s Open BAA. The focused, ambitious, and rapid pace of the work we did as part of HOPE with Annie Moisan and Cara Buchanan was critically enabling for Thymmune. Wellcome Leap executes the ARPA model at global scale--and it was fantastic preparation as we enter this next phase of advancing our cell therapy. We look forward to progressing our approach to providing a new thymus to patients in need.