New $50M program and call for abstracts
ABSTRACTS DUE 3.14.25
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A billion dollar breakthrough engine for health. At global scale.
In 3 years, executing 10 programs in 28 countries.
Over $500M committed.
$50M Program
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$50M Program
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$50M Supported Challenge
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$50M Program
Researchers working together to solve problems they can’t solve alone.
A new worldwide network of scientists and engineers is demonstrating how philanthropy can leverage a 60-year proven innovation model to solve urgent global problems. Now over 150 organizations on 6 continents, representing more than 1,500,000 researchers
The largest, most rapidly 'activatable' research network in the world.
Network shown at midpoint of first five programs.
Using a 60+ year proven model of innovation.
Wellcome Leap is built on a unique model of innovation practiced at DARPA.
For more than six decades, this model has been an uninterrupted engine of breakthrough innovation. It is not a discovery science model, but neither is it a pure application model.
It sits firmly at the intersection of the two.
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This kind of work is hard.
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