Wellcome Sanger Institute

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Established	1992
Director	Matthew Hurles
Faculty	32
Staff	~900
Address	Wellcome Genome Campus
Location	Hinxton , Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Coordinates	52°04′39″N 00°11′15″E / 52.07750°N 0.18750°E / 52.07750; 0.18750
Website	sanger.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.