ABOUT THE WELLCOME GENOME CAMPUS
The Wellcome Genome Campus is home to some of the world’s foremost institutes and organisations in genomics and computational biology. The Campus brings together a diverse and exceptional scientific community in a culture and environment that fosters creativity and rewards bold, ambitious thinking. Everyone is committed to delivering life-changing science with the reach, scale and imagination to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges. The Wellcome Genome Campus (“WGC” or the “Campus”) is a leading genomic research campus and home to the Wellcome Sanger Institute (“Sanger”) and the European Bioinformatics Institute. Sanger is Wellcome’s largest charitable initiative, having founded and funded the Campus and Sanger since 1992. Today, over 2,500 people work at the Campus that comprises c.1 million square feet of space set within a 135-acre estate in Hinxton, 9 miles south of Cambridge. The range of facilities include laboratories and associated research facilities, offices, recreational space including a restaurant, gym and nursery, a hotel and conference centre, residential accommodation and a data centre.
A major expansion of the WGC is underway with planning consent obtained in 2021 for c.1.6 million square feet of gross research and development space (laboratories and offices) primarily to be used for genomics and bioinformatics related activities, which are already core to the Campus. The planning consent also provides for 335,000 square feet of supporting uses (nursery, conference centre, health club, hotel etc.) and 1,500 homes. The expansion is expected to take 10-15 years to fully develop with the first buildings delivered in Phase 1 to become income generating in 2-3 years’ time. Wellcome Genome Campus Ltd (“WGCL”) will be responsible for the Estate Management of the whole Campus. You can read more about the history of the site here. You can find a summary guide to the development here.
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countries and all 5 continents. Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL-EBI staff are drawn from an international pool of scientfic talent
employees at the Sanger Institute including PhD’s and visiting workers
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employees including employees and visiting workers at EMBL-EBI
individuals working across 10 companies based in the BioData Innovation Centre
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