Our impact

Uncovering antimicrobial resistance in unusual places

Insights from zoo and animal studies

How could our DNA make us susceptible to autoimmune disease?

Continuing a legacy

Dr Angela Hind, our Chief Executive, leads a dedicated team which is committed to ensuring we use our donations responsibly and make the biggest possible impact on human health.

Finding the right treatments for hepatitis C

Understanding mental illness in children with intellectual disabilities

Improving the nation’s mental health

Training future leaders to solve antimicrobial resistance

Building a community of inspired African scholars

Research stars of the future

Through our Emerging Leaders Prize, we've funded research into lupus, adolescent mental health, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), pain research, COVID-19 and hepatitis.

Preventing eating disorders and self-harm

Revealing the biology underlying human disease

Using zebrafish to increase our understanding of motor neurone disease

Offering hope to families affected by genetic disorders

Spreading the word about harmful ‘skunk’

Optimising HIV treatment in low income countries

Pain

An underfunded area that needs urgent attention

Stroke in young adults

One in four strokes are reported to occur in people of working age.

Adolescent skin disorders

According to a 2020 survey by the All Parliamentary Group on Skin, 98 per cent of patients with a skin disorder report that their condition affects their emotional and psychological wellbeing.

Hearing loss

Hearing loss affects one in six people in the UK.

Changing policy and practice

Climate change and health

Our planet’s climate is changing, and it’s already affecting our health.

Antimicrobial resistance

Without urgent action, as many as 10 million people each year could die as a result of AMR. To stop the spread of drug-resistant illness and disease, a new approach is desperately needed.

Eating disorders

Around 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder

Lupus

An incurable disease we're facing head on

Hepatitis

Every 30 seconds, someone loses their life to a hepatitis related illness