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Apply to the Sanger Institute’s Clinical PhD Programme

We offer Clinical PhDs specifically for medically trained doctors. Our Clinical PhD programme seeks to develop world class academic clinicians who will make significant contributions to genomics and biomedicine.

The application closing date is: Tuesday 15th December 2020 (noon GMT)

Our 4-year PhD programme has closed for this coming academic the year. The closing date was 9am on Thursday 3rd December 2020 (09:00 GMT)

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The Sanger Prize 2021

The Sanger Institute Prize 2021 now open

The Sanger Prize is an outreach competition aimed at undergraduate students who live and study in low or middle income countries. The winner 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. ...more

Watch our online seminar by Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski

On 19 November, as part of our Sanger Seminar series, Dominic described how he uses genomics to probe the ongoing evolutionary arms race between parasites, mosquitoes and human populations that are afflicted by malaria, and how this knowledge can be translated into new strategies for combatting drug and insecticide resistance.

Watch the freely available talk and Q&A session using the link below

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Sanger Annual Highlights document out now

Our 2019/2020 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 also launched our latest research programme, the Tree of Life ...more

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1 Dec 2020

Dr Sam Behjati selected as an EMBO Young Investigator

Congratulations to Sanger Institute cancer researcher, Dr Sam Behjati, who has been recognised for his work on the developmental origins of ...
Dan Ross

19 Nov 2020

COG-UK computing effort wins collaboration award for COVID-19 work

HPCwire award recognises consortium's sequencing of tens of thousands of viral genomes
CDC, Alissa Ecker/MS and Dan Higgins/MAMS

16 Nov 2020

Wellcome Sanger Institute and COG-UK receive £12.2M UK Government investment for COVID-19 real-time genomic surveillance system

Institute researchers will support the COVID-19 Genomics UK consortium's work by providing high-throughput virus genome sequencing, creating surveillance software to ...

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