Faculty

Our Faculty conceive and deliver our science. Within our strategic framework the Institute’s scientific aspirations are driven by their vision, imagination and intellectual energy. The Institute has four different Faculty types: Faculty, Associate Faculty, Honorary Faculty and International Fellows. 

Faculty     Associate Faculty     Honorary Faculty     International Fellows

Current Faculty

Behjati, Sam

Behjati, Sam
Sam Behjati
Group Leader and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow

Campbell, Peter

Campbell, Peter
Peter Campbell
Head of Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation, and Senior Group Leader

Kwiatkowski, Dominic

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Dominic Kwiatkowski
Head of Parasites and Microbes Programme and Senior Group Leader

Rayner, Julian C

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Dr Julian C Rayner
Senior Group Leader and Director of Wellcome Genome Campus Connecting Science

Trynka, Gosia

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Dr Gosia Trynka
Group Leader at the Sanger Institute and Experimental Science Director at Open Targets

Previous Faculty

Barrett, Jeffrey

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Dr Jeffrey Barrett
Former Director of Open Targets & Former Senior Group Leader

Bradley, Allan

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Allan Bradley
Former Senior Group Leader & Director Emeritus

Nik-Zainal, Serena

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Dr Serena Nik-Zainal
CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist and Former Wellcome Sanger Institute Group Leader

Vallier, Ludovic

Vallier, Ludovic
Dr Ludovic Vallier
Honorary Faculty (formerly Senior Group Leader at the Sanger Institute)

Previous Faculty who left before 2016

Name

Date

Current affiliation or status

Current web address

Bähler, Jürg

2008

Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment and UCL Cancer Institute, University College London

Bähler laboratory

Barrell, Bart

2010

Retired

Bateman, Alex

2012

EBI Profile

Profile (archive)
Project (archive)

Beck, Stephan

2007

UCL Cancer Institute, University College London

Beck laboratory

Carter, Nigel

2012

Retired

Profile (Archive)
Project

Deloukas, Panos

2013

Professor of Cardiovascular Genomics at the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University London

Profile (Archive)
Project (Archive), William Harvey Research Institute

Dermitzakis, Emmanouil

2009

Population Genomics and Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Geneva

Dermitzakis laboratory

Enright, Anton

2008

European Bioinformatics Institute

Enright laboratory

Everett, Lorraine

2007

Clinical post, London

Fraser, Andrew

2008

Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto

Fraser laboratory

Grant, Seth

2011

Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Profile (archive)
Project (archive)
Seth Grant Group

Hubbard, Tim

2013

Professor of Bioinformatics and Head of Department, Professor of Bioinformatics at King's College London, and Head of Bioinformatics at Genomics England

Profile (archive)
Project (archive), King's College, London

McCafferty, John

2007

Cell Interaction Group, University of Cambridge

McCafferty laboratory

Palotie, AarnoResearch Director, Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, FIMMGenomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders group, FIMM

Peltonen, Leena

2010

Deceased (March 2010)

Profile (archive)
Project (archive)
Obituary

Rogers, Jane

2007

The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK

Ross, Mark

2007

Illumina Cambridge Ltd

Shaw-Smith, Charles

2010

Peninsula Medical School/Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust

Stemple, Derek

2015

Director, DNA Write Ltd. Based at Chesterford Research Park

Tannahill, David

2008

The Balasubramanian Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

Vetrie, David

2007

Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow

Wain, John

2008

Medical Microbiology, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

Wain laboratory