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#FlashbackFriday to 1878 when one of our founders, Sir Henry Wellcome, embarked on an expedition to Ecuador to study the Cinchona forest, from which quinine, the only #malaria treatment of the time, was made.

#TBT to 1974 when students from the Dublin Royal College of Pharmacy were invited to the Wellcome Museum and Beckenham research labs🔬. Here they are inspecting🧐 one of the huge DNA 🧬molecule models at the museum.

The labs of the 60s look a bit different to today’s facilities. Take a look at how an old vaccines site in Greenford, UK compares to our modern-day lab in Rockville, US #throwbackthursday #tbt

#TBT to the 1980s when we teamed up with @Marvel’s #CaptainAmerica in the fight 💪 against #asthma #ThrowbackThursday #LiveEveryBreath

#TBT to the early days of antibiotics research and development. Can you guess which decade these were taken?

#TBT to the early days of respiratory treatments, when you might have been recommended the Pillow Inhaler - designed to cure you of a myriad of respiratory ailments while you slept. #ThrowbackThursday

In 1988 Gertrude Elion and two other GSK scientists received the Nobel Prize in medicine for research leading to the first treatment for leukaemia. 30 years later we’re still working hard to find better ways to treat blood cancers. #ASH18

Q. Research centre or the setting of a sci-fi film? A. Both #TBT to when the Burroughs Wellcome site, where the first medicine for the treatment of #HIV was developed, featured in the movie🎞️ Brainstorm (1983)

Vaccine production looked quite different in the 60s #throwbackthursday #tbt

#TBT to over 30 years ago when Marty St. Clair discovered she’d made a scientific breakthrough in #HIV research! #ThrowbackThursday #ThursdayThoughts

#DYK back in the 1980s the Burroughs-Wellcome building - where scientists developed AZT, the first medicine for #HIV – starred in a sci-fi film? Can you guess the film🎞️?

What’s under the microscope? Thanks to our archivists for this great pic showing us what lab research looked like over 50 years ago, compared to what lab research looks like now #ThrowbackThursday

Thanks to our archivists for this great #ThrowbackThursday showing a technician testing out the stripes in a toothpaste tube. Can you guess the decade in which this photo was taken?

#ThrowbackThursday to Rino Rappuoli in his early days. Our chief vaccines scientist helped pioneer a new way to develop vaccines against diseases like meningitis B