Measuring the funding

March 8, 2011

The Wellcome Trust gives around £700 million to research each year. Naturally, the Trust wants to know where this money is going, and how well it’s being spent. This involves contextualizing Wellcome-funded research, and they’ve just published a fascinating timeline (see below) of research in (human) genetics, starting with Darwin and Mendel, noting the publication of the Human Genome Project and bringing us right up to date with 23andMe and the sequencing of cancer genomes. (The Scientist)