Taking the leap

2025-04-03T11:24:44+01:002 April 2025|

Making the jump from being a Postdoctoral Fellow or Staff Scientist to leading your own research team can be both exciting and daunting. The opportunities to explore new fields of research are vast, as are the responsibilities of leadership. Find out how Career Development Fellows made the leap – from the Fellows themselves.

Sanger’s startup school envigorates future entrepreneurs

2024-07-05T10:06:23+01:0011 June 2024|

The fourth edition of Sanger’s Startup School closed with 30 participants from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL-EBI having gained the confidence to look at science with a different, entrepreneurial perspective.

Festive traditions from around the world

2024-05-15T13:49:14+01:0019 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

2024-05-16T21:11:09+01:0030 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

2024-05-16T21:17:59+01:0023 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.