Wellcome Sanger Institute

Funded awards at Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Funded awards
140
Published Funding
£1.1B
Average published award
£9.5M
Active funded awards
12

Amounts are published for 112 of 140 funded awards. Data as of 16 July 2026.

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The biggest topic here is Genetics & Molecular Biology — 43 grants (31%). The busiest year was 2010, with 15 grants.

Funded Awards by Year

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YearFunded awards
20063
20075
20086
20095
201015
20112
20128
20137
201415
20155
201610
20175
20187
20197
202011
20214
20226
20239
20245
20255

Grants

WTSI Science and IT Platforms, Translation, Administration and EstatesWellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£518.8M2016Completed
Wellcome Sanger Institute Quinquennial Review 2021-2026Wellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£342.2M2021Active
GRL Funding 3 Core Revenue- Year 4Wellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£69.9M2014Completed
GRL Pension DeficitWellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£33.3M2014Completed
GRL Funding 3 Core Capital- Year 4Wellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£9.7M2014Completed
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Establishing Regional Hubs for Genomic Surveillance in West Africa, at the Wellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome Sanger InstituteNIHR£3.1M2022Completed
Learning from the thymic human cell atlas for T cell engineeringWellcome Sanger InstituteUKRI£2.1M2023Completed
Countering the evolutionary threat to malaria vector control in Africa - Major changes to national malaria elimination strategy in the Senegambia region as a model system for investigating strategies to block adaptation in Anopheles mosquito populationsWellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£1.8M2025Active
The Genomic Atlas of Dermatological Tumours (DERMATLAS)Wellcome Sanger InstituteMRC£1.6M2021Completed
Dissecting the regulatory mechanisms driving trophoblast cell fateWellcome Sanger InstituteUKRI£1.3M2023Active
Unravelling the whipworm niche at the host intestinal epitheliaWellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£1.2M2022Active
Clonal dynamics and mutational landscape of normal and cancerous tissues in cancer predisposition syndromesWellcome Sanger InstituteMRC£1.2M2022Active
The generation and maintenance of genetic novelty in helminth populationsWellcome Sanger InstituteUKRI£1.0M2020Completed
Understanding the Evolution of Late Breast Cancer Relapse as a Route to Improving Clinical OutcomeWellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£998K2019Completed
WormBase: expanding the reference resource for helminth researchWellcome Sanger InstituteMRC£889K2018Completed
Measuring the global impact of climate change on human health at a local sentinel siteWellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£700K2023Completed
Biodiversity Genomics EuropeWellcome Sanger InstituteUKRI£691K2022Completed
Measuring the global impact of climate change on human health at a local sentinel siteWellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome£686K2023Completed
Unravelling genotypic and phenotypic variation in helminth populationsWellcome Sanger InstituteUKRI£594K2025Active
Deciphering the regulatory genetic codeWellcome Sanger InstituteBBSRC£592K2025Active

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