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Babraham Institute
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The Babraham Institute is a life sciences research institution focussing on healthy ageing. The Babraham Institute is based on the Babraham Research Campus, partly occupying a former manor house, but also laboratory and science facility buildings on the campus, surrounded by an extensive parkland estate, just south of Cambridge, England. It is an independent and charitable organization which is involved in biomedical research, including healthy aging and molecular biology. The director is Dr Simon Cook who also leads the Institute's signalling research programme.
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Formation | 1948 |
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Director | Simon Cook |
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Staff | ~350 |
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The Babraham Institute is a member of EU-LIFE, an alliance of leading life sciences research centres in Europe.[1] It is also a partner organisation of the University of Cambridge