Francis Crick Institute
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| Established | 2007 |
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| Type | Research institute |
| Registration no. | England and Wales: 1140062 |
| Focus | Medical research |
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| Coordinates | 51°31′53″N 0°07′44″W / 51.5315°N 0.1289°WCoordinates: 51°31′53″N 0°07′44″W / 51.5315°N 0.1289°W |
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Chief Executive
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Sir Paul Nurse |
| Website | crick |
The Francis Crick Institute (formerly the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation) is a biomedical research centre in London, which opened in 2016. The institute is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, Imperial College London, King's College London (KCL), the Medical Research Council, University College London (UCL) and the Wellcome Trust. The institute is planned to have 1,500 staff, including 1,250 scientists, and an annual budget of over £100 million, making it the biggest single biomedical laboratory in Europe.
The institute is named after the British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. Unofficially, the Crick has been called Sir Paul's Cathedral, a reference to Sir Paul Nurse and St Paul's Cathedral in London.
The institute defines its research programme as exploring "seven high-level science questions reflecting both major issues of interest in biomedical research and the current research strategies of its six founders". According to the institute, these questions are:
The participants in the Francis Crick Institute providing funding are:
The Francis Crick Institute is located in a new state-of-the-art building built next to St Pancras International railway station in the Camden area of Central London. It consists of four reinforced concrete blocks up to eight storeys high plus four basement levels. The total internal floor area is 82,578m2 including 29,179m2 of laboratories with 4km of laboratory benching and 21,839m2 of associated write up space.
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