Wellcome Leap builds bold, unconventional programs, and funds them at scale.
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
The right model.
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.
Work in what we call Pasteur’s Quadrant demands that we set ambitious goals that are measurable and testable. So that we’ll know if we succeeded or failed. It requires that we intersect life sciences and engineering, so that we can demonstrate advances at convincing scale — because that’s how an idea once thought impossible, is seen as possible.
The right model.
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.
Work in what we call Pasteur’s Quadrant demands that we set ambitious goals that are measurable and testable. So that we’ll know if we succeeded or failed. It requires that we intersect life sciences and engineering, so that we can demonstrate advances at convincing scale — because that’s how an idea once thought impossible, is seen as possible.
The Wellcome Leap Health Breakthrough Network.
A global network dedicated to accelerating breakthroughs in human health.
Now over 100 organizations on 6 continents, representing more than 1,000,000 researchers.
The largest, most rapidly 'activatable' research network in the world.
This kind of work is hard.
The hard is what makes it great.
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