Wellcome Trust financial commitments for core costs of major longitudinal studies
NB Biobank is not included
Programme
Cost to the Wellcome Trust
Childhood cohorts
The National Child Development Study – the
1958 birth cohort
DNA case control series
£2.0 million over five years to 2006
ALSPAC
Core support for renewal of DNA resources and
phenotypic data
DNA resource
£4.5 million over five years to 2010
TwinsUK
DNA resource
£1.8 million over five years to 2006
Pelotas birth cohorts, Brazil (1982-1993)
Phenotypic data continuation
£1.1 million over five years to 2008
Birth to Twenty (BT20) cohort, South Africa
Phenotypic data; blood and urine samples
£1.7 million over five years to 2007
Adult cohorts
Mexico City Prospective Study (Proyecto
Coyoacan), Mexico
Blood sample storage and analysis
£2.0 million over five and a half years to 2006
Urban Health Study, Beirut, Lebanon
Household census and phenotypic data (a-cross
sectional study of a representative household
sample in three Beirut neighbourhoods rather than a
cohort study)
£1.9 million over five years to 2009
Determinants of cardiovascular disease in
eastern Europe: a multi-centre cohort study
Phenotypic data and blood collection
£1.1 million over five years to 2007
Thai health-risk transition: a national cohort
study
Phenotypic data collection
£0.46 million over five years to 2009
Family cohorts/demographic surveillance
systems (DSS)
Kanchanaburi DSS
Household census and phenotypic data collection.
One year 'sunset' funding provided in 2005
£2.8 million over six and a half years to 2006
Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies
(DSS and HIV surveillance)
Household census and phenotypic data collection;
HIV surveillance
£8.3 million over six years to 2007 for the DSS
The Vertical Transmission Study, South Africa
Phenotypic data collection
£3.6 million over six years to 2007
Agincourt DSS
Household census and phenotypic data collection
£0.9 million over five years to 2008
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme,
Kilifi, Kenya
Household census and phenotypic data collection
continuation
£12.9 million over five years to 2010 for whole
programme – DSS is part of this
Karonga DSS
Phenotypic data and DNA collection continuation
£4.35 million over five years to 2006