Wellcome Sanger Institute

Wellcome Sanger Institute
Established1992
DirectorMatthew Hurles
Faculty32
Staff~900
AddressWellcome Genome Campus
Location,
Coordinates52°04′39″N 00°11′15″E / 52.07750°N 0.18750°E / 52.07750; 0.18750
Websitesanger.ac.uk

The Wellcome Sanger Institute, previously known as The Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute, primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust.[1]

It is located on the Wellcome Genome Campus by the village of Hinxton, outside Cambridge. It shares this location with the European Bioinformatics Institute. It was established in 1992 and named after double Nobel laureate Frederick Sanger.[2][3] It was conceived as a large scale DNA sequencing centre to participate in the Human Genome Project, and went on to make the largest single contribution to the gold standard sequence of the human genome. From its inception the institute established and has maintained a policy of data sharing, and does much of its research in collaboration.

Since 2000, the institute expanded its mission to understand "the role of genetics in health and disease".[4] The institute now employs around 900 people[5] and engages in five main areas of research: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation; Cellular Genetics; Human Genetics; Parasite and Microbes; and the Tree of Life.

  1. ^ "MRC Centre United Kingdom: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute". Medical Research Council. Archived from the original on 21 May 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  2. ^ Walker, John (2014). "Frederick Sanger (1918–2013) Double Nobel-prizewinning genomics pioneer". Nature. 505 (7481): 27. Bibcode:2014Natur.505...27W. doi:10.1038/505027a. PMID 24380948.
  3. ^ Sanger, F. (1988). "Sequences, Sequences, and Sequences". Annual Review of Biochemistry. 57: 1–29. doi:10.1146/annurev.bi.57.070188.000245. PMID 2460023.
  4. ^ "Wellcome Sanger Institute - About us". Wellcome Sanger Institute. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  5. ^ www-core (webteam). "Our People". www.sanger.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.