work

Galleries and Reading Room

Café

Shop

Library

Our galleries are quietest on weekdays and weekend mornings. At busy times, particularly on Saturdays, you may need to queue for our temporary exhibitions.

We’re undertaking some research with website visitors to learn more about how people find access-related information provided by museums. This survey shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time!

Help us organize our website content.

Correspondence regarding a lecture given by Peter Williams at St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School as well as a handwritten draft of Williams' talk, "The Background to Medical Research".

Direct activities

Advocacy

Events attended by Peter Williams to support medical research, 1950s-1970s

Miscellaneous speeches and article by Peter Williams

University of Bristol lecture by Peter Williams, May 1965

Polio fund conference "Medical Research: Whose responsibility?", 20 May 1966

Tropical Medicine Research Board talk, 14 October 1969

Industrial Council for Tropical Health Conference, 28 October 1969

Royal Society of Medicine Symposium "Problems of World Medicine", 7 May 1970

C.I.O.M.S. Round Table Conference "Training of research workers in the medical sciences", 10-11 September 1970

Conference on "Medical education, research and medical care in developing countries", 26-29 March 1971

Meeting at Villa Serbelloni on "The need for and opportunities for work by foundations in the drug field", 13-15 November 1971

Meeting on "The support of biomedical research in the U.K.", 17 May 1972

Symposium on "The Support of Biomedical Research in Developing Countries", 19-23 June 1972

Medical Research Society Symposium on "The Organisation and Financing of Medical Research", 7 December 1973

Half-day conference on "Medical Research in Europe", 16 March 1973

Commonwealth Universities Congress, 11-18 August 1973

Leckhampton Symposium on "The Postgraduate in the Next Decade", 6-8 September 1973

Visit to Josiah Macy Jr Foundation, New York, 27-28 June 1973

University of Strathclyde visit to address bioengineering postgraduate students, 5 June 1974

Visit to Washington for Pan American Health Organization meeting, 24-27 June 1973

Ciba Foundation 25th Anniversary Symposium on the Future of Philanthrophic Foundations, 16-19 June 1974

Visit to the Agnelli Foundation Turin, 26-29 November 1973

Article on "The Philosophy of Non-Governmental support for Medical Schools" by Peter Williams

Royal Society of Medicine Library and Lay Section meeting on "The support of medical research by foundation and charities", 15 May 1974

"Is Research in the Biomedical Sciences Properly Organised?" joint symposium, 3 September 1975

Tenth annual meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 22-24 April 1976

Conference on "Opportunities for Philanthropy", 4-9 October 1976

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene symposium on "The search for new drugs for tropical diseases", 16 March 1978

Third Geographic Medicine lecture at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, 10 November 1978

"Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind" First annual meeting of the Rockefeller Foundation's Biomedical Research Network, 12-17 November 1978

"The research foundations and the universities" talk by Peter Williams at a '1942 Club' meeting, 8 July 1978

Article for <i>Trends in Neurosciences</i> by Peter Williams and Edda Hanington, August 1978

Editorial for <i>The American Journal of Medicine</i>, October 1978

Visit to Bankok and Kuala Lumpur, 7-14 January 1979

"Co-operation in Leprosy Research" script

Strasbourg meeting on foundations and other philanthropic bodies, 6-8 February 1973

Round table conference on "European Foundations and the Financing of Fundamental Research", 27-28 April 1972

Round table conference on "The role of private funds for research", 16-17 February 1972

St. Thomas' Hospital lecture "The Background to Medical Research", 16 February 1967

Wellcome uses cookies.

St. Thomas' Hospital lecture "The Background to Medical Research", 16 February 1967

Collection contents

About this work

Description

Publication/Creation

Physical description

Where to find it

Permanent link