Sanger Prize 2024 is now open

The winner of the Sanger Institute Prize will be offered a three-month internship with a research group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Travel, living and research expenses are all covered by the award.

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Our 2022/2023 Highlights document

Our Highlights document showcases the key discoveries and future research interests of our Scientific Programmes. These include vital insights into human, parasite and microbe evolution, cellular growth and activity, and the processes that underlie mutation and tumour formation. In addition, our Tree of Life Programme explores the diversity of complex life. ...more

 

Latest News and Blogs

27 Nov 2023

Pocket-sized DNA sequencers track malaria drug resistance in near real-time

A team of scientists working in Ghana have pioneered on-site genomic surveillance to track changes in the malaria parasite, achieving sampling ...

23 Nov 2023

Racism, medicine and why we need to decolonise healthcare

In October, Dr Annabel Sowemimo joined us on the Wellcome Genome Campus to speak about her work exploring the ways that racism and colonial thinking are embedded within medicine, science and institutions – and the difficulties of untangling it.

21 Nov 2023

From somatic mutations to Quotient

We spoke to Dr Iñigo Martincorena, group leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and academic co-founder of Quotient Therapeutics. Quotient is a new company leveraging Sanger Institute research to innovate the way drugs are discovered.