STAT: With billions in the bank, a ‘visionary’ doctor tries to change the world
“…At a time when government funding for public health research is shrinking across much of the world, and epidemics wreak havoc with what seems like increasing frequency, [Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy] Farrar stands to make a very big difference not only in the scientific community but, really, in the world. … The Wellcome Trust’s mission — to improve health — is advanced through grants issued from an endowment valued at about $26.5 billion…” (Branswell, 5/6).