Babraham Institute

The Babraham Institute
Formation	1948
Location	Babraham Research Campus, Babraham, Cambridgeshire, UK;
Director	Simon Cook
Key people	Wolf Reik; Martin Turner (scientist); Len Stephens; Phillip Thomas Hawkins;
Affiliations	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) UK Research and Innovation (UKRI);
Staff	~350
Website	www.babraham.ac.uk
Formerly called	Institute of Animal Physiology (IAP); Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR);

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.

The Babraham Institute is a member of EU-LIFE, an alliance of leading life sciences research centres in Europe. It is also a partner organisation of the University of Cambridge

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