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Wellcome Trust
Coverage of Wellcome Trust in the Nexus archive.
- How climate change gets under the skin
Climate change poses significant health risks by exacerbating heat waves, wildfire smoke, and infectious diseases, leading to cardiovascular strain, dehydration, and increased mortality. Researchers warn that even healthy individuals face long-term health threats from overlapping climate stressors like extreme heat and pollution.
- Bridget Ogilvie obituary: parasitologist who championed biomedical labs and scientific evidence
Bridget Ogilvie, a parasitologist and director of the Wellcome Trust, founded a charity and built labs that contributed to sequencing the human genome.