Sanger Life
20 November 2025Meet the next generation of genomic scientists who are benefiting from the Wellcome Sanger Institute founder, John Sulston's legacy. Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam was awarded the Sanger Prize in 2024, and joined the Tree of Life Programme to work alongside Mark Blaxter’s research group. During her three-month Sanger Prize placement, she is building data pipelines while learning and adapting new techniques for researchers to study the fascinating biology of nematode worms.
29 October 20258.2 min readArtificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we analyse biological data – from predicting protein structures to uncovering insights from vast genomic datasets. Ronnie Crawford, Science Solutions Lead at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, bridges AI and genomics. His work covers predicting protein stability from sequence data and building communities around AI‑driven research. From a reluctant programmer to an AI innovator, Ronnie’s path shows how career flexibility can lead to new opportunities in computational biology.
19 December 20239 min readWe 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.
30 November 20234.9 min readInternational Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM celebrates the work of LGBTQIA+ people in science, technology, engineering, and maths.
23 November 202310.9 min readIn 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.
21 November 20239 min readWe 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.
13 November 20235.6 min readTo celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, Dr Joanna Mills tells us what Entrepreneurship looks like at the Sanger Institute.
27 October 20232.9 min readTo 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.
