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Apply to the Sanger Institute’s Clinical PhD Programme

Clinical PhD fellowships are available for clinical health professionals with an aptitude for research and the potential to become future leaders in genomics, biomedicine and healthcare science. The programme is run in partnership with the PhD Programme for Health Professionals at the Universities of Cambridge and East Anglia and the application closing date is Friday 4th November 2022 (noon GMT).

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Download the Wellcome Sanger Institute Highlights 2020/21

Our 2021/2022 Highlights document

Over the past year we have provided new insights into human, parasite and microbe evolution, cellular development, and the mutational processes that lead to cancer. We supported the UK's national COVID-19 genomic surveillance efforts and delivered reference genomes for a wide range of UK species as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project ...more

Genomic Surveillance Unit

The Unit supports partners worldwide with practical tools for pandemic preparedness and local infectious disease control.

We develop, run, support and maintain open products: all the way from sample collection in the field, through high-throughput laboratory sequencing, to the delivery and interrogation of analysis-ready data.

 

Latest News and Blogs

26 Sep 2022

How do you sequence over 240,000 whole human genomes?

The world’s largest human genome sequencing project has been for UK Biobank – a large-scale biomedical database. Sanger staff have sequenced 243,633 human genomes in 3.5 years.

26 Sep 2022

Our UK Biobank Journey: 3 years and over 240,000 human genomes

In 2019, the Sanger Institute started the most ambitious human genome sequencing project in the world. Three years later, the Institute has delivered nearly 250,000 whole human genome sequences and over 20 petabytes (PB) of data, for the UK Biobank project, to aid research into health and disease.

15 Sep 2022

Experiencing Sanger's science first hand

This year the Sanger Institute gave three Year 12 students the opportunity to directly contribute our cutting-edge science. Read about their experiences

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⏰ Applications to our #PhD programme open in 7 days ⏰

Nurturing the next generation of world-class genome scientists & clinicians

Applications are open to overseas applicants. For more info about our programme see: http://ow.ly/bkWS50KSHgJ

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