Decoding sepsis and the secrets of the immune system

2026-03-09T10:48:21+00:0010 March 2026|

Sepsis is a killer, responsible for 20 per cent of all deaths around the world. Yet the condition is notoriously difficult to study. Dr Emma Davenport and her team are using genomics to uncover the biological mechanisms at work.

Personalising cancer treatment using the gut microbiome

2024-09-06T10:23:10+01:006 September 2024|

Did you know that your gut bugs may affect your cancer risk? Dr Ashray Gunjur, Clinical Research Training Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, is exploring how clinicians can use the biology of the gut microbiome to personalise cancer treatment.

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.

20 Things We Learned in 2020

2021-11-08T11:50:04+00:0021 December 2020|

This has been a year that none of us will forget in a hurry. The Institute is immensely proud of the way our staff have pulled together, and the work we have managed to achieve

Perfume, jazz and immunogenetics

2019-10-31T18:01:00+00:0031 October 2019|

Dr Velislava Petrova is a Postdoctoral Fellow working in immunogenetics in Dr Carl Anderson’s group at the Sanger Institute. Currently she is working at the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Office of Innovation in Geneva

Stealth and sabotage

2015-07-15T08:01:25+01:0015 July 2015|

15.07.15 Abigail Perrin explains how malaria parasites trick our immune system