Dr Martin Dougherty

Former Chief Operating Officer

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Martin Dougherty was Chief Operating Officer at the Wellcome Sanger Institute from 2014 to 2024. He is now COO at NIAB (National Institute of Agricultural Botany) and can be contacted at: martin.dougherty@niab.com.

This page is no longer being updated and is being maintained as a historical record of Martin’s time at the Institute.

Martin was accountable for leadership across a range of management and support functions underpinning the research programmes and Genome Campus operations. These include areas such as HR and organisational development, finance and H&S, through to capital projects, facilities management and research administration.

My ambition is to deliver cost effective management operations to our research teams that match their world leading capabilities. An organisation like the Sanger Institute should be led by the needs of the science and the mantra in Management Operations is to provide simple and effective services that reduce the administrative burden on our researchers, so they can focus on what they do best!

As a senior manager at the Sanger Institute I like to ensure people realise I am approachable. A wise consultant once told me the higher you are in an organisation the less you know about how it actually runs. One way to guard against this is to have a truly “open door” policy!

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