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 (below) and International Fellows.

Current Honorary Faculty

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Prof Stephen Baker

Director of Research For Global Health in the Department of Medicine (UCAM) and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Martin Bobrow

Emeritus Professor of Medical Genetics and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Abdoulaye Djimdé

CAMES Professor of Parasitology and Mycology and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Martin Donnelly

Professor of Evolutionary Genetics and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Dr Helen V Firth

Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Paul Flicek

Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Visiting Group Leader at EMBL-EBI

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Dr Samuel Kariuki

Director, Research and Development at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Marc Lipsitch

Honorary Faculty

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Dr Ultan McDermott

Chief Scientist at AstraZeneca and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

McDermott Group

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Prof Gene Myers

Director at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Adjunct Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Chris Newbold

Professor of Tropical Medicine and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Willem H Ouwehand

Professor of Experimental Haematology and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Deenan Pillay

Director, Africa Health Research Institute and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Dr Tim Raine

Clinician and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Dr Julian C Rayner

Honorary Faculty (formerly Senior Group Leader at the Sanger Institute) and Director of Wellcome Connecting Science

Rayner Group

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Prof David Rowitch

Head of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Professor Ludovic Vallier

Honorary Faculty (formerly Senior Group Leader at the Sanger Institute)

Vallier Group

Previous Honorary Faculty

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Dr Ana Cvejic

Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellow and Former Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Andy Futreal

Professor of Genomic Medicine  and Former Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Ian Humphreys

Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Former Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski

Former Honorary Faculty

Kwiatkowski Group

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Prof Aarno Palotie

Former Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Sharon Peacock

Director of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium and Former Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Leena Peltonen

Former Head of Human Genetics

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Dr Samuli Ripatti

Deputy Director Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland and Former Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Liam Smeeth

Head of the Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Former Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof Karen Steel

Professor of Sensory Function at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases and Former Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Prof John Sulston

Founding Director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute