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Study tracking T-cell activation over time boosts search for immune disease treatments

Study tracking T-cell activation over time boosts search for immune disease treatments

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Careers and Study

Working at the Sanger Institute is truly unique. We put collaboration, innovation and support for people as individuals at the centre of everything we do. Join us to help shape the future by delivering life-changing science with the reach, scale, and creativity to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges.

About Us

We tackle some of the most difficult challenges in genomic research. This demands science at scale; a visionary and creative approach to research that pushes the boundaries of our understanding in ever new and exciting ways.

  • Careers: Join our community of world class thinkers and professionals at the Sanger Institute located in Cambridge. Together we achieve life-changing science.
  • Study: We are committed to training the next generation of pioneering genome scientists and clinicians. At the Wellome Sanger Institute we give PhD students and postdocs all the tools they need to succeed in the field of genomics research.

Who we are

Our vision and mission is to deliver world-leading genomics research in collaboration with research partners across the globe. Discover how our funding gives our leadership the independence to conduct bold, ambitious science that pioneers new fields in health, disease and conservation.

About Us

We tackle some of the most difficult challenges in genomic research. This demands science at scale; a visionary and creative approach to research that pushes the boundaries of our understanding in ever new and exciting ways.

  • Our Vision and Strategy: By focusing on fundamental discovery research led by our faculty and employing our unique scale in cutting-edge data generation and analysis, we deliver discoveries not easily made elsewhere.
  • Impact: From providing fundamental resources for understanding biology to exploring cancer genomes and the effects of variation in human genomes, our work lays the foundations for personalised medicine. We also reveal the secrets of human development and how infectious diseases evolve and spread.
  • Leadership and Governance: Discover how our leadership and structures are designed to enable holistic and effective decision making, with transparency and accountability woven into their make up.
  • Funding: Since 1992, Wellcome has invested in the Sanger Institute to deliver bold, long-term discovery science at scale, by developing and deploying high-calibre people and technologies.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The diversity in skills and knowledge that we all bring make our Institute the thriving ideas factory that it is. Discover how we support each other to reach our full potential and thrive. We celebrate diversity and seek to ensure that everyone has equal access to professional and career development opportunities.

About Us

We tackle some of the most difficult challenges in genomic research. This demands science at scale; a visionary and creative approach to research that pushes the boundaries of our understanding in ever new and exciting ways.

Policies

We play a pivotal role in helping to shape Government and International research policies. We also lead the way in developing guidance to support our scientists to carry out their research ethically, equitably and responsibly.

About Us

We tackle some of the most difficult challenges in genomic research. This demands science at scale; a visionary and creative approach to research that pushes the boundaries of our understanding in ever new and exciting ways.

  • Influencing Policy: We advise all levels of government both in the UK and across the world on the the role, impact and importance of genomic and life science research.
  • Research Policies: Our policies help our researchers carry out their science collaboratively, equitably, ethically and responsibly.

Admin Groups

Browse our management and support operations teams that facilitate the Sanger Institute’s science.

About Us

We tackle some of the most difficult challenges in genomic research. This demands science at scale; a visionary and creative approach to research that pushes the boundaries of our understanding in ever new and exciting ways.

Campus Connections

We are sited on the Wellcome Genome Campus at the very heart of a global hub of fundamental and applied genomic research, education and engagement. It is home to some of the world’s foremost institutes and organisations using genomes and biodata to deliver science with the reach, scale and imagination to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges and maximise societal benefit.

About Us

We tackle some of the most difficult challenges in genomic research. This demands science at scale; a visionary and creative approach to research that pushes the boundaries of our understanding in ever new and exciting ways.

About

We tackle some of the most difficult challenges in genomic research. This demands science at scale; a visionary and creative approach to research that pushes the boundaries of our understanding in ever new and exciting ways.

About Us

We tackle some of the most difficult challenges in genomic research. This demands science at scale; a visionary and creative approach to research that pushes the boundaries of our understanding in ever new and exciting ways.

Science

Programmes

Our research is organised into six primary Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus. In addition, our Associate Research programmes pioneer new approaches to studying health and disease.

Science & technology

Our science is organised into six Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus.

  • Cellular Genomics
  • Generative Genomics
  • Human Genetics
  • Parasites and Microbes
  • Somatic Genomics
  • Tree of Life
  • Associate Research Programmes
Groups

Browse the research, scientific and support teams in the Sanger Institute.

Science & technology

Our science is organised into six Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus.

Collaborations

Explore the national, international and global research projects and collaborations we either lead or actively contribute to.

Science & technology

Our science is organised into six Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus.

Data

Browse our genomic and genetic data resources and repositories.

Science & technology

Our science is organised into six Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus.

Software and Resources

We freely and openly provide the global research community with a wide range of genomics software, protocols, and platforms.

Science & technology

Our science is organised into six Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus.

Publications

The Sanger Institute has published papers in some of the most prestigious scientific journals. We aim to publish research that will transform biology and improve healthcare.

Science & technology

Our science is organised into six Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus.

Research Policies

Sanger Institute’s Research Policies are designed to provide guidance to help researchers navigate the legislation relating to their research and to ensure that research is ethical and legal.

Science & technology

Our science is organised into six Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus.

Archive
Science & technology

Our science is organised into six Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus.

  • COVID-19: The Sanger Institute played a major role in the genomic surveillance of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing large-scale high-throughput sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and analysis of its evolution and spread in the UK.
  • Sanger Seminar Series: Throughout the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020-2021 we hosted a series of monthly freely available and open virtual seminars. From using genomic approaches to map all cell types in the human body, understand how cancer develops, and track the evolution and spread of global diseases, our senior scientists and faculty presented the latest developments in their field.

Science

Our science is organised into six Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with