Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust

”With a portfolio worth almost £14bn, the Wellcome Trust is the world's second largest charity. It was founded in 1936 on the death of American-born pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome, who vested the entire share capital of his drug company the Wellcome Foundation in five trustees with instructions on how to spend the income. It is the UK's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research, investing more than £500m "to improve human and animal health" and to promote the understanding of science. In 1986, the Wellcome Foundation was floated on the stock exchange with a quarter of its shares sold to the public. The rest were sold off in 1995, when the company was bought by Glaxo to form GlaxoWellcome, which evolved into GlaxoSmithKline.”?


 * Director - Mark Walport
 * Former Director - Bridget Ogilvie

Board of Governors
Accessed June 2012:


 * William Castell Became Chairman in May 2006, having joined the Board in January 2006.
 * Kay Davies Joined the Board of Governors in January 2008.
 * Alan Brown Joined the Board of Governors in May 2012.
 * Richard Hynes Joined the Board of Governors in January 2007.
 * Michael A.J. Ferguson Joined the Board of Governors in January 2012.
 * Eliza Manningham-Buller Joined the Board of Governors in August 2008.
 * Anne Johnson Joined the Board of Governors in January 2011.
 * Peter Smith Joined the Board of Governors in June 2004.
 * Peter Rigby

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