The Sanger Institute Prize 2022

The Sanger Prize is an outreach competition aimed at undergraduate students who live and study in low or middle income countries. The winner will have a three-month internship in a research group at the Sanger Institute with all travel, living and research expenses covered

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Available now: Early life microbiomes and longer-term health outcomes video seminar

Catch up with our free online Sanger Seminar Series and hear Dr Lawley explain how his team uses data-driven and hypothesis-driven approaches to investigate the human microbiome and translate their findings into medicines and diagnostics. His lab uses (meta)genomic analysis, genetics, mouse and cellular models, microbial culturing, transcriptomics, proteomics and machine learning to understand how healthy and disease resistant microbiomes develop, and discover the microbiome's effects on a range of developmental disorders, diseases and poorly understood syndromes ...more

Dan Ross

COVID-19 research at the Sanger Institute

We track, understand and combat COVID-19. Every day we read the genomes of thousands of viruses to track its spread, find new variants, and guide public health choices. We study how the virus enters our cells, and we develop new infection tests

 

Latest News and Blogs

Rawlinson et al.

2 Dec 2021

Human parasite’s daily rhythms could be targeted for better treatments

The parasitic worm that causes the neglected tropical disease, schistosomiasis, has daily rhythms in gene expression, including genes that could be ...
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26 Nov 2021

Syphilis is back and it is global, genetic study suggests

Disease incidence has risen sharply in recent decades
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23 Nov 2021

IBS biomarker identified that could help personalise diet and treatment

Half of people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome have a distinct microbiome compared to healthy people, and they respond better to a ...

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