Wellcome Sanger director apologises for management failings

Independent investigation criticises closed culture with few women at senior level

The director of Britain's leading genetics laboratory has apologised for failures that prompted allegations of bullying and gender discrimination.

Sir Professor Mike Stratton, director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, said that the investigation into complaints by 10 former and current staff members highlighted ways that his own conduct and that of the institute needed to improve.