Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

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Sulston Laboratories of the Sanger Institute and EBI
The Morgan (left) and Sulston (background) buildings of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is an internationally renowned British genome research institute near Cambridge . It played an essential role in the human genome project .

The institute was named after the two-time Nobel Prize winner Frederick Sanger . It is located on a Wellcome Trust campus in Hinxton , a village near Cambridge , UK .

In particular, the institute uses high throughput methods from the field of DNA and sequence analysis with the aim of better understanding genetic information and its role in sick and healthy people. In addition, the institute provides free of charge research results that it has generated itself or external research in the form of databases.

History of the Sanger Institute

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute was founded in 1992 and funded by a foundation for the advancement of science ( Wellcome Trust ) and a medical research community ( Medical Research Council ). The main aim of the foundation was to "play a substantial role in the sequencing and interpretation of the human genome ."

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus

The institute is located on a park-like area of ​​around 200,000 square meters with an old mansion (Hinxton Hall) in the middle. The institute shares the site with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and a conference center.

Around 1300 employees work on the entire campus (as of 2008), 800 of them for the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

financing

The Sanger Institute is a non-profit organization and is primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Wellcome Trust is the largest not-for-profit foundation in the UK and the world's largest foundation supporting biomedical research.

The Wellcome Trust will provide £ 340 million over the five-year period 2006-2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute homepage . Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Retrieved December 9, 2008.
  2. ^ Sanger Institute - General Information . Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Retrieved December 9, 2008.
  3. ^ Careers at the Sanger Institute . Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Retrieved December 9, 2008.
  4. ↑ Funding: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute . Wellcome Trust. Retrieved June 30, 2009.

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