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Wellcome Leap was established to accelerate discovery and innovation for the benefit of human health. Wellcome Leap will build bold, unconventional programs and fund them at scale—programs that target global human health challenges, with the goal of achieving breakthrough scientific and technological solutions.
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Location
United States, California, Los Angeles
Employees
1-10
Mentions in press and media 6
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| Apr 17, 2026 | How IBM Quantum is Enabling Healthcare and Biology Research | In the first ever Q4Bio Challenge, research teams sought to demonstrate scalable quantum algorithms for healthcare, with Algorithmiq's work alongside Cleveland Clinic and IBM earning $2 million Q4Bio prize. Q4Bio aims to accelerate developm... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | Wellcome Leap & Temasek Trust Launch US$60M Dynamic Resilience Programme to Extend Health Spans | Average human life expectancy has doubled from 35 to 70 years over the past century[1], but health spans (number of years spent in good health) have not correspondingly improved[2] Multimorbidity (multiple coexisting health conditions) pose... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | Wellcome Leap & Temasek Trust Launch US$60M Dynamic Resilience Programme to Extend Health Spans | Average human life expectancy has doubled from 35 to 70 years over the past century[1], but health spans (number of years spent in good health) have not correspondingly improved[2] Multimorbidity (multiple coexisting health conditions) pose... |
| Aug 15, 2022 | Could Assay Streaming Avoid The Next Pandemic? | Founder & COO of DNA Script, pioneering a new, fast, powerful and versatile way to design and manufacture nucleic acids. |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Sanger researchers to tackle deadly brain cancer with ‘tissue time machine’ | Sanger researchers to tackle deadly brain cancer with ‘tissue time machine’ 16-11-2021 Sanger Institute scientists are starting a new project that will integrate information from spatial transcriptomics with single-cell RNA and DNA sequenci... |
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FAQ about Wellcome Leap
What has the press written about Wellcome Leap?
Parsers VC has collected 6 articles mentioning Wellcome Leap, among them “How IBM Quantum is Enabling Healthcare and Biology Research” (Apr 17, 2026) and “Wellcome Leap & Temasek Trust Launch US$60M Dynamic Resilience Programme to Extend Health Spans” (Apr 25, 2023).
Is Wellcome Leap still active?
Yes, Wellcome Leap is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 14, 2026.