In 1901, on a visit to Khartoum with her father, she met Henry Wellcome, an American-born British industrialist who had made his fortune in pharmaceuticals ( his firm became Burroughs Wellcome ).

Her parents married in 1917, after her mother's divorce from the British pharmaceuticals magnate Henry Wellcome.

For example, in the 1999 merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, both firms ceased to exist when they merged, and a new company, GlaxoSmithKline, was created.

The word " tabloid " comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as " Tabloid " pills in the late 1880s.

< td style =" width :“ 74 %”; vertical-align: top ;"> KKR and Stefano Pessina, the company ’ s deputy chairman and largest shareholder, acquired the UK drug store retailer for £ 12. 4 billion ($ 24. 8 billion ) including assumed debt, after increasing their bid more than 40 % amidst intense competition from Terra Firma Capital Partners and Wellcome Trust.

The company receives 86 % of its funding from the UK Government ( via the STFC ) and 14 % from the Wellcome Trust.

He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs, which is one of the four large companies that merged to form GlaxoSmithKline.

In 1880, Henry Wellcome established a pharmaceutical company, Burroughs Wellcome & Company, with his colleague Silas Mainville Burroughs.

The company flourished and Henry Wellcome set up several research laboratories linked to the drug company.

In 1924, Wellcome consolidated all his commercial and non-commercial activities in one holding company, The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.

In his will, Henry Wellcome vested the entire share capital of his company in individual Trustees, who were charged with spending the income to further human and animal health.

Wellcome began introducing Market Place by Jasons, a high end supermarket brand first introduced by its Singapore sister company Cold Storage, to Hong Kong in 2007.

Another daughter, Gwendolyn Maud Syrie ( 1879 – 1955 ), known as Syrie like her mother, was married to wealthy businessman Henry Wellcome, and later to the writer Somerset Maugham, and became a socially prominent London interior designer in the 1920s and 1930s.

Its income was derived from what was originally called Burroughs Wellcome, later renamed in the UK as the Wellcome Foundation Ltd.

In 1989, he was a founding member of the Wellcome / CRC Institute for Cell Biology and Cancer ( later Wellcome / CR UK ) in Cambridge, and was its Chair until 2001.

He later designed the Government Service Center in Boston, First Church in Boston, the main campus of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ( originally known as Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute, and later as the Southeastern Massachusetts University ), the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, the Endo Pharmaceuticals Building, the Dana Arts Center at Colgate University, and the Burroughs Wellcome headquarters in North Carolina.

In 2000, the Wellcome name disappeared from the drug business altogether when GlaxoWellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham, to form GlaxoSmithKline plc.

The construction commenced around the courtyard with the East Wing ( The King's Library ) in 1823 – 1828, followed by the North Wing in 1833 – 1838, which originally housed among other galleries a reading room, now the Wellcome Gallery.

File: Wellcome Trust Gallery + Living & Dying ( Room 24 ). jpg | Room 24-The Wellcome Trust Gallery with Hoa Hakananai ' a in the centre

Recent genome research by Luca Pagani of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute suggests that a non-African component of present-day Ethiopian people has much in common with people of the area around Syria, and that the introduction of that Syrian genetic component took place approximately 3, 000 years ago.

His collaborative works with Bill Jones have been exhibited in museums and galleries including Sandra Gering Gallery New York, Exit Art New York, Wellcome Gallery London and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

An early attempt to create a scrub typhus vaccine occurred in the United Kingdom in 1937 ( with the Wellcome Foundation infecting around 300, 000 cotton rats in a classified project called " Operation Tyburn "), but the vaccine was not used.

In 1973, Vane left academia and took up the position as director of research of the Wellcome Foundation, taking a number of his colleagues with him who went on to form the Prostaglandin Research department.

* Surgery Live, a Wellcome Collection collaboration with Channel 4

In 1997 the museum was awarded a £ 12. 5 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and this, together with monies from the European Regional Development Fund, the University of Manchester, the Wellcome Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and other sponsors enabled the museum to refurbish the building which reopened in 2003.

In 1942, he went to work for Wellcome Research Laboratories, where he began working with Gertrude Elion in 1944.

The genome sequence of S. scabies, a member of the genus with the ability to cause potato scab disease, has been determined at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

However, the Trustees were dissatisfied with the final draft of 1942, and the biography was never published ( the drafts are, however, freely available for consultation at the Wellcome Library ).

He was one of the first investigators to use kite aerial photography on an archaeological site, with surviving images available in the Wellcome Library.

Wellcome established its second corporate brand, First Choice, with a product range of over 1, 000 items.

Wellcome announced its double refund offer with lowest price guarantee by doubling the difference back to customers.

It is upper-market to its main rivals Wellcome and Park ' n Shop, with goods that are usually otherwise unavailable in Hong Kong and are relatively highly priced.

The first equipped laboratory for bacteriological analysis was added in 1905, with donations from Sir Henry Wellcome, an American-British pharmaceutical entrepreneur and archaeologist.

road, some of which are the pharmaceutical companies-Hoechst Wellcome, Glaxo, Merind and Johnson & Johnson.

Cialis was discovered by Glaxo Wellcome ( now GlaxoSmithKline ) under a partnership between Glaxo and ICOS to develop new drugs that began in August 1991.

* Langley Court, Beckenham, built by the Wellcome Foundation, now part of Glaxo Wellcome.

Tadalafil was initially formulated by Glaxo Wellcome ( now GlaxoSmithKline ) under a new drug development partnership between Glaxo and Icos that began in August 1991.

Mr Renton resigned in 1992 and was replaced by Sean Lance, from Glaxo Wellcome in 1998, and finally by Howard Pien from GlaxoSmithKlein in 2003.

" which was awarded the Glaxo Wellcome Prize by the British Science Writers Association.

The National Gallery, London has three paintings with others in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Apsley House, Windsor Castle, Petworth House, the Wellcome Library and Liverpool.

In addition, he left a large amount of capital for charitable work in his will, which was used to form the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's largest medical charities.