Announcing a new $100M commitment to advance women’s health, in partnership with Pivotal, founded by Melinda French Gates.
A breakthrough engine for health. At global scale.
Wellcome Leap builds bold, unconventional programs, and funds them at scale. Programs optimized to deliver breakthroughs in human health over 5 – 10 years and demonstrate seemingly impossible results on seemingly impossible timelines.
Wellcome Leap is a global ARPA for health.
In 5 years, executing 13 programs in 30 countries.
$50M Program
the missed vital sign
What if we could reduce the time it takes to get effective treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding from 5 years to 5 months?
$50M Program
care
What if endocrinology could prevent Alzheimer's?
$50M Program
Untangling Addiction
What if we treated addiction like we treat cancer, as a curable, biological illness?
$60M Program
Dynamic Resilience
What if our health span matched our life span?
$50M Supported Challenge
Q4Bio
What if we could develop new algorithms that deliver quantum advantage for health?
$50M Program
SAVE
What if we could shorten and improve training and not all surgical providers needed to be MDs?
$50M Program
In Utero
What if we could reduce the number of stillborn babies by half by detecting emerging complications in utero?
R3 Global
What if a distributed network of biofoundries could produce mRNA biologics for cancer, Zika, or RA, and also surge capacity in the advent of a pandemic?
$50M Program
Multi-Channel Psych
What if we could double the number of people who receive an effective treatment for depression? On the first try.
$55M Program
Delta Tissue
What if we could predict future disease progression for an individual so as to target treatments today?
$45M Program
1kD
What if we've been approaching the first 3 years of a child's development all wrong?
$50M Program
HOPE
What if we could bioengineer a kidney that restores enough function to eliminate dialysis?
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 170 organizations on 6 continents, representing more than 1,500,000 researchers.
The world’s largest research network, ready for instant activation.
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.
This kind of work is hard.
The hard is what makes it great.
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