Women’s health is underfunded and understudied. We explore how researchers across the Wellcome Sanger Institute are using advanced genomic tools to unpick the complexities of fundamental women’s health issues.

At the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Xiaotian Liao navigates a world of protein puzzles, global experiences and furry friends, blending curiosity and computation into a journey that stretches far beyond the lab.

In this eighth part of our innovator blog series, we spoke to Dr Jolynne Mokaya, Public Health Lead at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. With an entrepreneurial and ingenious spirit, Jolynne is helping to build a community of practice of cholera experts that will facilitate and progress research by leveraging regional expertise across several continents.

Dr Omer Bayraktar takes us on a journey through the intertwining of his life and science – a journey that spans continents and generations to shape new scientific narratives about one of our most complex organs: the brain.

With recent advances in pangenomics, we can now analyse mosquito DNA at scale, using graph-based pangenomes to uncover their diversity and track how they adapt.