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Wellcome Sanger Institute

Research institute • www.sanger.ac.uk

Research

The Wellcome Sanger Institute is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute. Its current biosecurity-relevant work includes the Parasites and Microbes Programme, generative genomics and large-scale pathogen research, while its former Genomic Surveillance Unit was disbanded in 2026 following a strategic shift toward discovery science.

This research institute works on

  • Pathogen surveillance
  • Epidemiology
  • Rapid diagnostics
  • Synthetic biology