Francis Crick Institute

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Partial view of the Francis Crick Institute building

The Francis Crick Institute , also known as The Crick , until July 2011 UK Center for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI), is a British research institute in the field of biomedicine . It is in the legal form of a charitable trust (charitable foundation) supported by Cancer Research UK , Imperial College London , King's College London , the Medical Research Council , University College London and the Wellcome Trust . These sponsors bring together a total of £ 700 million in the foundation, with the Medical Research Council by far the largest share at £ 300 million. Since the beginning of 2011, the founding director has been the biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse .

history

The institute, named after the Nobel Laureate Francis Crick , who died in 2004, was planned to replace three outdated facilities from 2007 (including the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK, which previously had two locations, and the National Institute for Medical Research of the Medical Research Council). The new building was completed in August 2016. The scientists from Clare Hall, Lincoln's Inn Fields and Mill Hill moved into the new building in stages. On November 9th the building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II . Full utilization should be achieved by 2021. With over 1500 employees, including 1250 scientists, and an annual budget of over £ 100 million, it will be the largest biomedical research institute in Europe.

building

The Crick is in a new, by the US architectural firm HOK completed designed with the local partner PLP Architecture and 2011-2016, housed 700 million £ expensive building, located on the Euston Road in the district of Somers Town in the district of Camden , near, St Pancras train station is located.

Research (selection)

• In October 2015, Tomas Lindahl , Emeritus Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his mechanistic studies on DNA repair
• In February 2016, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority approved a research group headed by Kathy Niakan to modify the genetic makeup of human embryos in order to elucidate the genetic causes of premature births .
• Other researchers at the institute include the Louis Jeantet Prize winners Robin Lovell Badge , Richard Treisman , Stephen C. West , Caetano Reis e Sousa , John Diffley, and Peter J. Ratcliffe , Peter J. Parker and Karen Vousden .

Web links

• Homepage (English)

Footnotes

1. ^ The Queen opens new Francis Crick Institute building. Retrieved April 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Plans for largest biomedical research facility in Europe unveiled. At: TheGuardian.com. June 19, 2010.
3. ↑ Europe's superlab: Sir Paul's cathedral. At: Nature.com. 23rd June 2015.
4. ^ The new laboratory building. ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. At: Crick.ac.uk.
5. ^ Architecture. ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. At: Crick.ac.uk.
6. ^ Architecture: The Crick Institute unpeeled. At: Nature.com. 3rd February 2016.
7. ↑ Great Britain allows genetic manipulation on embryos. "Like removing the handbrake on a car". At: Tagesschau.de. February 1, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '53.7 "  N , 0 ° 7' 44"  W.