A billion dollar 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.
10 programs launched in 3 years, in 28 countries.
Over $500M committed.
$50M Program
$45M Program
$55M Program
$50M Program
$60M Program
$50M Program
$50M Program
$50M Supported Challenge
$60M Supported Challenge
$50M Supported Challenge
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.
This kind of work is hard.
The hard is what makes it great.
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