Welcome to the Babraham Institute website
The Babraham Institute is located six miles south-east of the university city of Cambridge, UK. We undertake innovative biomedical research to discover the molecular mechanisms that underlie normal cellular processes and functions, and how, over lifetime, their failure or abnormality may lead to disease.
The Institute is a registered charity, sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
(BBSRC), to underpin its national responsibilities for healthcare research and training.
Our research is also supported by the Medical Research Council
(MRC) and many medical charities and other organisations.
There are approximately 450 members of the Institute, including around 30 research Group Leaders, 70 graduate (PhD) students, 90 postdoctoral research scientists, support staff, administration staff and working visitors, coming from all over the world. This diverse, international mix produces a stimulating research environment. The work of the Institute is recognised as internationally important, and in some areas, world-leading.
Babraham Bioscience Technologies Ltd (BBT) is the wholly-owned trading subsidiary of the Babraham Institute and 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.
Babraham Research Campus is being developed by BBT and the Institute to create a knowledge-driven campus to promote innovation across the academic and commercial divide and become one of the leading centres for bioscience innovation in the UK. Currently some 30 start-up and growing bioscience companies reside on the Campus, which is set in an attractive and extensive parkland, woodland and riverside environment.
Professor Michael Wakelam
Institute Director
