The Wellcome Sanger Institute has two PhD programmes:
The application process for the 2025 intake of the Institute’s 4-year PhD Programme is now open. The closing date is Thursday 28th November 2024 (09:00 GMT). The PhD Interviews Day will be on Monday 27th January 2025.
The application process for the 2025 intake of the Institute’s Clinical PhD Programme is now open. The closing date is Tuesday 5th November 2024 (23:59 GMT). Interviews will be held in early January 2025 – exact dates to be confirmed.
The Wellcome Sanger Institute is a world leader in genomics research. Our Faculty apply and explore genomic technologies at scale to advance understanding of biology and improve health. Making discoveries not easily made elsewhere, our research delivers insights across health, disease, evolution and pathogen biology. We are open and collaborative; our data, results, tools, technologies and training are freely shared across the globe to advance science.
Funded by Wellcome, we have the freedom to think long-term and push the boundaries of genomics. We take on the challenges of applying our research to the real world, where we aim to bring benefit to people and society.
The Institute is passionate about postgraduate student training, and one of our core aims is to nurture the next generation of world class genome scientists and clinicians who will make significant contributions to biomedicine.
The Institute’s two PhD programmes are both open to overseas applicants, and we aim to attract the brightest and best young scientists and clinicians from all around the world.
Postgraduate students at the Institute play an integral role in these research programmes and are often lead authors on many of the resulting publications. The vast majority of our students have already started to develop an excellent publication record by the time they leave the Institute, and this puts them in an advantageous position to go on and lead highly successful future careers.
The research facilities and resources available are exceptional, even at a global level, and therefore provide postgraduate students with unprecedented opportunities to develop their skills. Our scientific niche is in large-scale, high-throughput biology, often incorporating systematic genome-wide screens. This is enabled by major data generation platforms in DNA sequencing and cellular genetics, microscopic and spatial imaging, together with an accompanying large IT platform supporting computational data interpretation and analysis.
As part of our PhD programmes we have a well established and comprehensive training programme, which provides a strong grounding in transferable and general research skills. Our students are encouraged to present their work at national and international scientific meetings, as well as to the Institute. We can also help to develop important links for students through our major roles in many national and international collaborations and consortia across all of our research areas.
Postgraduate students at the Institute are monitored and managed by a senior academic team (the Committee of Graduate Studies, which meets regularly), with support from dedicated administrative personnel. All students have a thesis committee that meets with the student at least once per year and primarily serves as a scientific advisory board for the student throughout their PhD work.
The Sanger Institute is nestled amongst the landscaped gardens of a restored 18th century mansion, and is located just south of Cambridge. The campus is shared with the European Bioinformatics Institute, the Biodata Innovation Centre and Genomics England and provides excellent amenities including a well equipped library, restaurant and cafes, sports hall, sports field and gym, onsite nursery and a free bus service.
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