Wellcome Sanger Institute

The Sanger Prize 2023 is now open

The Prize is an outreach competition for undergraduate students from low- and middle-income countries and allows the winner to experience the very cutting edge of genomic research. The winner receives a three-month internship with a research group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. All essential expenses will be are covered by the award, including travel and visa costs, accommodation and reasonable food costs. ...more

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Apply to the Sanger Institute’s 4-year PhD Programme

The Sanger Institute’s PhD programmes train the next generation of world-class genome scientists.

4-year PhD students receive full financial support, including Cambridge University tuition fees, regardless of nationality. Studentships are available across all our research areas. Application closing date: Thursday 1 December 2022 (09:00 GMT).

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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

23 Nov 2022

New hope for kidney cancer treatment using existing drugs

Molecular pathway involved in renal cell carcinoma has already been targetted to treat lung cancer

23 Nov 2022

The Power of Resilience: Attending the UK’s largest tech event for women

A group of women from Sanger’s Production Software Development team will head to London this month to join 4,500+ tech innovators, leaders and industry titans at this year’s Women of Silicon Roundabout conference.

18 Nov 2022

Asexuality in STEM: Definitions, misconceptions, and queer joy

What it means to be asexual, misconceptions and queer joy in the science communication space.

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25 Nov 1596102711677779970

Tree of Life celebrates 500 #genomes 🧬 collected, sequenced, assembled @sangerinstitute + published @ENASequence for researchers worldwide🌍🌏🌎

👀 The graphic below shows the diversity of life and projects involved.

For latest on all our genomes: http://tolqc.cog.sanger.ac.uk