The Babraham Institute is an independent charitable life sciences institute undertaking research in basic cell and molecular biology. See also List of basic cell biology topics. Cell biology (also called cellular biology or formerly cytology, from the Molecular biology is the study of Biology at a molecular level It is sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and is based in Babraham, Cambridgeshire, England. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC is a British Research Council and Non-Departmental Public Body supporting several scientific Babraham is a village and Civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about six miles south-east of Cambridge History Cambridgeshire is noted as the site of some of the earliest known Neolithic permanent settlement in the United Kingdom, along with sites at Fengate England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

The commercialisation of the institute’s research is managed by its wholly owned trading subsidiary, Babraham Bioscience Technologies Ltd (BBT), a knowledge transfer company. BBT manages a bioincubator facility for small biotechnology companies.

The institute also has the status of a postgraduate department within the University of Cambridge and trains PhD students who are registered with the University's Faculty of Biology. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the

Front of Babraham hall

Back of Babraham Hall

View from Babraham campus towards the gate

View from Babraham campus towards the science blocks

External links

• Babraham Institute web site
• BBSRC web site