The Babraham Institute,[1] set in an extensive parkland estate just south of Cambridge, is an independent charitable life sciences institute involved in biomedical research. The aim of this research is to discover the molecular mechanisms that underlie normal cellular processes and functions, and how their failure or abnormality may lead to disease. The Babraham Institute is sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and is based in Babraham, Cambridgeshire, England. The institute has the status of a postgraduate department within the University of Cambridge and trains PhD students who are registered with the University's Faculty of Biology. The institute was previously known as the A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham. [2]
Babraham Bioscience Technologies Ltd (BBT)[3], the wholly owned trading subsidiary of the Babraham Institute promotes knowledge transfer and translation of the Institute’s research discoveries, actively managing and exploiting the Institute’s intellectual property, promoting and negotiating commercial research partnerships and establishing spin-out companies when appropriate.
The institute is situated six miles outside Cambridge by the Gog Magog Downs, close to where the Via Devana, crossed the prehistoric Icknield Way. The estate includes Babraham Hall, designed by Philip Hardwick, which was built between 1832-37.
References
- ^ "Babraham Institute - Discovery Biology for Biomedicine - Babraham Research Campus, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom". http://www.babraham.ac.uk/. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
- ^ Daly, I. D. B. (1957). "A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 146 (923): 194–126. doi:10.1098/rspb.1957.0004.
- ^ "Babraham Bioscience Technologies Ltd - Babraham Research Campus, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom". http://www.babraham.com. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
Coordinates: 52°07′59″N 0°12′12″E / 52.13310°N 0.20329°E
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