The UK’s leading private biomedical research funder has said it will change its grant-making processes to favour applicants from diverse backgrounds.
The change comes in response to an evaluation by a group of consultancy firms, which found the Wellcome Trust’s two-year-old anti-racism programme had made “limited progress”.
While the funder had brought about “some positive behavioural and practice shifts, there has been insufficient action taken to allow this commitment to take root”, they say.
