“I never planned my career to be where I am now”: Muzz Haniffa on riding pillion, seizing opportunities and her vision for the Cellular Genomics programme

2025-05-22T16:38:12+01:0020 May 2025|

Professor Muzlifah “Muzz” Haniffa, Head of Cellular Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, takes us on a ride of serendipitous discovery both personal and professional, leading us to a new ambitious vision that will apply learnings from space, time and context, much like life itself, to cells and tissue ecosystems that impact health and disease.

Giving science a new skin

2025-07-24T13:10:33+01:001 May 2024|

Lab-grown organoids that mimic human skin are enabling new research into development and disease. Dr April Rose Foster sat down with us to talk about working with the cells and her hopes for the future of research into skin disease.

Behind the Heart Cell Atlas

2024-05-21T16:26:47+01:0012 July 2023|

Histologists, cardiologists, immunologists, cell biologists, software developers, bioinformaticians and specialist technicians have worked together to see individual cells in unprecedented detail. Using spatial genomics, they located each cell to its precise location in the heart.

Mapping the endometrium, cell by cell

2021-12-07T13:25:08+00:002 December 2021|

Dr Roser Vento-Tormo tells us about her work to map the cells lining the uterus in space and time, how it epitomises her love of collaboration in science

A Cellular Landscape

2021-11-03T18:36:34+00:003 November 2021|

The connections between the external and internal environments are explored in a new experimental short film ‘Call of the Silent Cell’. The film created was by artists working with scientists in the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) – a global project to map the 37 trillion cells in our bodies, and forms part of a new, online exhibition.

Championing Team Science

2021-10-10T10:15:52+01:0030 April 2021|

Professor Muzlifah Haniffa shares her thoughts achieving large-scale science.