Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is an internationally renowned, British Genome Research Institute near Cambridge. It played a major role in the Human Genome Project.

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

In particular, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute uses high-throughput methods in the field of DNA and sequence analysis with the aim of better understanding of the genetic information and its role in the diseased or healthy people. The Institute also provides self-generated and external research results in the form of databases available for free.

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute was founded in 1992 and by a Foundation for the Promotion of Science ( Wellcome Trust) as well as a medical research community ( Medical Research Council ) funded. Founding goal was primarily to "play a substantial role in the sequencing and interpretation of the human genome. "

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus

The Institute is located on a 200 000 square meters large, park -like grounds in the middle of an old mansion ( Hinxton Hall ) stands. The Wellcome Institute shares the grounds with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI ) and a conference center.

Approximately 1,300 employees work throughout the campus (2008 ), 800 of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

The Genome Campus is located about 14 km south of Cambridge. There are shuttle bus service to Cambridge and Saffron Walden -. Furthermore, the city bus line citi 7 leads from Cambridge to Saffron Walden on - campus over. The Stansted Airport is 32 km away.

Financing

The Sanger Institute is a nonprofit organization and is primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Wellcome Trust is the largest charitable foundation in the UK and the world's largest foundation that supports biomedical research.

For the five-year period from 2006 to 2011 340 million pounds are made available by the Wellcome Trust.