The Babraham Institute, set in an attractive and extensive parkland estate just south of Cambridge, is an independent charitable life sciences institute undertaking innovative 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 Babraham Institute provide a highly successful research environment and 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.
Babraham Bioscience Technologies Ltd (BBT), 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. BBT is developing the campus to promote innovation and become one of the leading centres for bioscience innovation in the UK.
External links
- Babraham Institute web site
- BBSRC web site
Coordinates: 52°07′59″N 0°12′12″E / 52.13310°N 0.20329°E
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