How we work

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a non-profit organisation, primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust and run by the charity Genome Research Limited (GRL). More than 800 people work here. Mike Stratton is the Director of the Institute: he leads a Board of Management, who look after the Institute's operations and work to define our strategic aims and policies.

Who runs the Sanger Institute?

The Sanger Institute is run by Genome Research Limited (GRL), a Registered Charity whose aims are to advance research into, and investigation of, the human genome and to publish the results to advance scientific and medical research.

GRL delegates authority to a Board of Management led by the Institute's Director Mike Stratton. More than 800 people work at the Institute. Our management structure is intended to ensure responsiveness to the Institute's scientific needs.

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