Festive traditions from around the world

2023-12-19T13:51:01+00:0019 December 2023|

We are lucky enough to have many talented staff from all around the world working at the Sanger Institute, and this year we asked them about how they spend the upcoming winter break. Find out more about goes on throughout the globe in the month of December.

LGBTQIA+ people in STEM 2023

2023-11-30T08:08:53+00:0030 November 2023|

International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM celebrates the work of LGBTQIA+ people in science, technology, engineering, and maths.

Racism, medicine and why we need to decolonise healthcare

2023-12-18T09:19:10+00:0023 November 2023|

In October, Dr Annabel Sowemimo joined us on the Wellcome Genome Campus to speak about her work exploring the ways that racism and colonial thinking are embedded within medicine, science and institutions – and the difficulties of untangling it.

From somatic mutations to Quotient

2023-12-04T15:48:22+00:0021 November 2023|

We spoke to Dr Iñigo Martincorena, group leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and academic co-founder of Quotient Therapeutics. Quotient is a new company leveraging Sanger Institute research to innovate the way drugs are discovered.

Black History Month – 2023

2023-10-27T11:53:16+01:0027 October 2023|

To celebrate Black History Month 2023, we are highlighting some of the incredible Black women on campus. These women, Martha Mulongo, Rachel Ogidan, and Alice Matimba, all have crucial roles in progressing the scientific research that takes place at the Wellcome Genome Campus.

I’m a biologist 2023

2023-11-23T17:35:27+00:0020 October 2023|

Staff in the Cellular Genetics Programme tell us about their roles, from computational genomics, to laboratory management to working with stem cells to understand development.