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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

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

7 Sep 2022

Butterflies, peacock spiders, and rapid speciation

Dr Joana Meier, new group leader in the Tree of Life programme, describes her research into how and why groups of animals evolve and diversify into new species over millennia.
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7 Sep 2022

Study develops new way of identifying cancer cells 

Open access software also provides crucial data on the microenvironment of tumours

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A new tool for sorting cancer cells from non-cancer cells has been developed 🔎

It is openly available for researchers around the 🌍 and provides crucial data on the microenvironment of tumours.

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We’re celebrating our fantastic Postdocs, past & present, this Postdoc Appreciation Week. A huge thank you for your incredible contributions to our science and our community! 🙌🎉

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