The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is internationally recognized as one of the world's leading genome centres, and our programmes are at the forefront of experimental and computational genome research. These programmes emphasise investigation of human genetic variation in health, cancer and other diseases, experimental genetic analysis of gene function in a variety of model organisms, biological studies of human and animal pathogens, and computational interpretation of genomic data.

Progress in biology is increasingly dependent on genomics, thus training in this area is not only rewarding, but will offer many opportunities in the future. Our graduate training programme is well established and has substantial support from the Wellcome Trust.

Highly competitive fully funded 4-year studentships (tuition fees and stipend) for UK and international students will be available from October 2010 in the areas of genetics, functional genomics and computational biology.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Clinical PhD Fellowships

We also provide funding for two Clinical Research Training Fellowships each year as part of the Cambridge Wellcome Trust PhD Programme for Clinicians. For more information please see http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/study/wtclinicians.html.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Faculty members participating in the programmes: