MPhil and PhD student supervisors
The Sanger Institute Faculty members and senior scientists listed below are available as potential supervisors of MPhil and PhD students.
Dr Dave Adams
Profile Page: Dr David Adams
Research Group: Experimental cancer genetics
Research Programme: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation
Dr Carl Anderson
Profile Page: Dr Carl Anderson
Research Group: Genomics of inflammation and immunity
Research Programme: Human Genetics
Dr Omer Bayraktar
Profile Page: Dr Omer Bayraktar
Research Group: Cellular diversity in the human brain
Research Programme: Cellular Genetics
Dr Sam Behjati
Profile Page: Dr Sam Behjati
Research Group: Connecting human development and disease
Research Programme: Cellular Genetics
Professor Stephen Bentley
Profile Page: Professor Stephen Bentley
Research Group: Genomics of pneumonia, meningitis and neonatal sepsis
Research Programme: Parasites and Microbes
Professor Mark Blaxter
Profile Page: Professor Mark Blaxter
Research Group: Evolutionary Genomics
Research Programme: Tree of Life
Dr Josie Bryant
Profile Page: Dr Josie Bryant
Research Group: Lung Micobiome
Research Programme: Parasites and Microbes
Dr Peter Campbell
Profile Page: Dr Peter Campbell
Research Group: Cancer Genome Project
Research Programme: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation
Dr Song Chen
Profile Page: Dr Song Chen
Research Group: Single-cell multi-omics tissue mapping and organoid-based disease modeling
Research Programme: Cellular Genetics
Professor John Danesh
Profile Page: Professor John Danesh
Research Group: Health Data Research UK Cambridge Hub
Research Programme: Human Genetics
Dr Emma Davenport
Profile Page: Dr Emma Davenport
Research Group: Functional Genomics
Research Programme: Human Genetics
Dr Mathew Garnett
Profile Page: Dr Mathew Garnett
Research Group: Translational Cancer Genomics
Research Programme: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation
Professor Muzlifah Haniffa
Profile Page: Professor Muzlifah Haniffa
Research Group: Genomics of immune cells during development, health and disease at single-cell resolution
Research Programme: Cellular Genetics
Dr Ewan Harrison
Profile Page: Dr Ewan Harrison
Research Group: Respiratory Virus and Microbiome Initiative
Research Programme: Parasites and Microbes
Professor Matthew Hurles
Profile Page: Professor Matthew Hurles
Research Group: Genomic mutation and genetic disease
Research Programme: Human Genetics
Dr Kamil Jaron
Profile Page: Dr Kamil Jaron
Research Group: Evolutionary insights from unusual reproductive mechanisms
Research Programme: Tree of Life
Professor Phil Jones
Profile Page: Professor Phil Jones
Research Group: Pre-cancer
Research Programme: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation
Dr Trevor Lawley
Profile Page: Dr Trevor Lawley
Research Group: Host-microbiota interactions
Research Programme: Parasites and Microbes
Dr Mara Lawniczak
Profile Page: Dr Mara Lawniczak
Research Group: Evolutionary genetics
Research Programme: Tree of Life
Professor Ben Lehner
Profile Page: Professor Ben Lehner
Research Group: Programmable Biology
Research Programme: Human Genetics
Dr Mo Lotfollahi
Profile Page: Dr Mo Lotfollahi
Research Group: Artificial Intelligence for Cell Engineering (AICE) Lab
Research Programme: Cellular Genetics
Dr Hilary Martin
Profile Page: Dr Hilary Martin
Research Group: Medical and population genomics
Research Programme: Human Genetics
Dr Inigo Martincorena
Profile Page: Dr Inigo Martincorena
Research Group: Somatic evolution
Research Programme: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation
Dr Joana Meier
Profile Page: Dr Joana Meier
Research Group: Genomics of evolution and rapid speciation
Research Programme: Tree of Life
Dr Jyoti Nangalia
Profile Page: Dr Jyoti Nangalia
Research Group: Clonal trajectories and epigenetics
Research Programme: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation
Dr Leo Parts
Profile Page: Dr Leo Parts
Research Group: Function of human DNA and its variation
Research Programme: Human Genetics
Dr Raheleh Rahbari
Profile Page: Dr Raheleh Rahbari
Research Group: Cancer predisposition and ageing
Research Programme: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation
Professor Mike Stratton
Profile Page: Professor Mike Stratton
Research Group: Cancer Genome Project
Research Programme: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation
Professor Nick Thomson
Profile Page: Professor Nicholas Thomson
Research Group: Bacterial genomics and evolution
Research Programme: Parasites and Microbes
Dr Gosia Trynka
Profile Page: Dr Gosia Trynka
Research Group: Immune genomics
Research Programme: Human Genetics
Dr Roser Vento-Tormo
Profile Page: Dr Roser Vento-Tormo
Research Group: Quantitative human developmental biology
Research Programme: Cellular Genetics