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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

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Meet our people: Life at the Sanger Institute

We have over 1,200 people at the Sanger Institute, from 70+ nationalities. We know that the success of our Institute depends on our people.

Explore what our employees, students, and alumni from across the Institute have to say about what they do, our culture and more.

 

Latest News and Blogs

4 Oct 2023

30 impacts for 30 years

We highlight some of our impacts - from sequencing the human genome, to enabling the diagnosis of rare disease patients around the world.

Alicia L. Bruzos

2 Oct 2023

Contagious cancers in cockles sequenced, showing unexpected instability

The genomes of transmissible shellfish cancers have been sequenced for the first time, revealing levels of genomic instability not seen in ...
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2 Oct 2023

Inigo Martincorena receives Dr Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award 2023   

Dr Inigo Martincorena has been awarded the Dr Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award 2023 for his research into the development of ...