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“Health is about human beings.” This was the powerful opening of a recent interview with Dr Caesar Atuire. He was discussing his new Wellcome Discovery Award project. It emphasises the importance of placing the needs, values and priorities of people at the heart of health research. It’s an idea that is a key part of our work in Discovery Research at Wellcome Trust. However, we find that researchers working in more applied areas may not always consider discovery research funding to support their ideas. We want to change that. In this article, Paul Meller and I share examples of Wellcome-funded projects that demonstrate some of the areas where discovery research is directly inspired by and impacting human beings