Dr Anna Wenger

Anna Wenger is a Wenner-Gren fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Her postdoctoral research focuses on cancer in children.

Academic interests

Anna Wenger’s academic interests include: 

• Childhood cancer
• Epigenetics
• Genetics
• Origin and development of cancer.

Degrees obtained

• BSc in Bioengineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 2012.
• MSc in Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology, 2014.
• PhD in Medical Science, University of Gothenburg, 2022.

Awards and prizes

• PhD thesis of the year at the Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, 2022.
• Postdoctoral fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundations, 2022.

Biography

Anna Wenger received her BSc in Bioengineering and her MSc in Biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). She then pursued a PhD at the University of Gothenburg, focussing on brain tumours in children. She was awarded a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundations, which funds her postdoc at the Wellcome Sanger Institute under the supervision of Professor Sam Behjati. Anna’s postdoctoral research uses novel DNA sequencing technologies to unravel the origin and development of childhood cancer.

Other interests

Travel, hiking, reading and sports.