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Chance for Undergraduate Students to Get a three-month Internship at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

Chance for Undergraduate Students to Get a three-month Internship at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

United Kingdom 11 Dec 2020
The Wellcome Sanger Institute

The Wellcome Sanger Institute

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The Wellcome Sanger Institute is offering the Sanger Prize Competition 2021 for undergraduate students who live and study in low or middle-income countries. The prize was set up in 2002 after John Sulston, Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz won a Nobel Prize for their work on C.elegans. John Sulston wanted to donate his part of the prize money to a charitable trust to be administered by the Sanger Institute and he appointed a Board of Trustees who decided that the money should be used to fund an annual essay competition to benefit students who would otherwise not have access to the facilities the institute has to offer.

Eligibility:

To be eligible to apply for the Sanger Prize applicants must meet all of the criteria below:

  • Be from a low or middle-income country.
  • Be studying an undergraduate degree relevant to genomics at a University/Institute in a low/middle-income country at the time of the first stage application. This could include any biological science degree, bioinformatics, or any degree which includes genomics as a large part of the content.
  • Demonstrate an active interest in research in the genomics field.
  • Have a good command of English (demonstrated by the clear writing within the application form, no certificate of English is required).
  • Be over 18 at the time of applying.

Applicants who do not meet all of the above criteria will not be considered for the second stage of the competition.

Benefits:

The winner of the competition will be offered a three-month internship with a research group at the Institute working in a lab of their choice, hosted by a member of the Sanger Faculty. All of their essential travel, living, and training expenses are paid for by the fund, and support and mentorship are given by the Institute, both from the scientific program they work with and the team who administer the fund.

The winner will be able to choose the lab and faculty host they work with, subject to the availability of the host.

The winner will be able to choose the timing of their internship which should be taken within a year of being awarded (travel restrictions due to Covid -19 or other unexpected events will be taken into consideration and exceptions made).

Competition Stages:

Stage one - Expression of interest

First stage applicants are asked to complete a short application form and write an expression of interest detailing their scientific interests, their interests in genomics, and why they want to come to the Sanger Institute.

Stage two - Essay

Successful candidates will then be asked to take part in stage two of the process, which is to write an essay with a given title. Details of this stage will be emailed to the candidates at the beginning of February 2021 and they will be given one month to complete the essay.

About the Organization:

The Wellcome Sanger Institute, previously known as The Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute, primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust.
It is located on the Wellcome Genome Campus by the village of Hinxton, outside Cambridge. It shares this location with the European Bioinformatics Institute. It was established in 1992 and named after double Nobel Laureate Frederick Sanger. It was conceived as a large scale DNA sequencing center to participate in the Human Genome Project and went on to make the largest single contribution to the gold standard sequence of the human genome. From its inception, the Institute established and has maintained a policy of data sharing, and does much of its research in collaboration.
Since 2000, the Institute expanded its mission to understand "the role of genetics in health and disease". The Institute now employs around 900 people and engages in five main areas of research: Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation; Cellular Genetics; Human Genetics; Parasite and Microbes; and the Tree of Life.

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