How the Wellcome Sanger Institute is building operations to match its science

Key points At SapioCon 2026, Amy Yeung, head of cellular services within scientific operations at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, made a practical case for why scientific ambition now depends on operational foundations. At Sanger’s scale, operations are not a support function in the background. Instead, they are, as Yeung described them, the enablers of science.