Unravelling how parasitic worms respond to drug treatment

2024-04-10T14:34:07+01:0011 April 2024|

Parasitic worms transmitted through the soil infect an estimated 1.5 billion people worldwide and cause diseases that help drive poverty in tropical and subtropical countries. Wellcome Sanger Institute researchers, as part of the STOP2030 project, are using their unique genetics expertise to monitor the effects of promising new treatments to help combat these diseases.

The forgotten disease

2023-06-26T15:15:39+01:0030 January 2023|

For World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, we spoke to Dr Tess Attenborough, who works on understanding the biology of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis.

A forgotten disease

2024-03-07T17:25:23+00:0021 July 2021|

The fight against melioidosis - a neglected, often fatal, bacterial disease.

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