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Francis Crick
Biomedical research institute
- 1001+ employees
- Education
- Science
- MedTech
- Somers Town, London, UK
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Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
10% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Named for the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, the Francis Crick Institute was founded in 2015 through the merger of the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research and CRUK's London Research Institute. Its mission is to push the boundaries of our understanding of how life works, making it the largest single-site biomedical research institute in Europe, with 2,000 staff and students supporting over 100 research groups.
One of the Institute's strengths is its ability to collaborate extensively with external research groups, boasting over 1,400 partnerships in more than 90 countries. These collaborations, however, pose data protection challenges due to the need to transfer vast amounts of sensitive information across borders. The Institute has addressed this by developing its own Trusted Research Environment toolkit, which allows remote teams to share data securely and compliantly in the cloud.
In recent news, the Francis Crick Institute has partnered with Broken String Biosciences to advance research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), demonstrating its commitment to impactful collaborations. Furthermore, the Institute secured £1 billion in funding back in 2022. Despite the UK's declining position in global science funding rankings, the Institute is maximising its effectiveness through the BRIDGE network and investments in AI and machine learning. A notable example is Google’s subsidiary DeepMind establishing a research lab within the Institute to enhance biology and genomics research.
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Benefits
- 28 days of holiday each year, plus three additional days (usually taken over Christmas) and bank holidays
- Defined contribution pension scheme, with the Crick contributing between 3% - 16% of salary
- Life assurance
- Season ticket/car parking loan
- Annual leave purchase
- Childcare support allowance
- Shopping discounts
- Back-up dependent care
- Discounted annual gym membership
- Bike to Work scheme
- Payroll giving
Company values
- Bold
- Imaginative
- Open
- Dynamic
- Collegial
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$1.3bn
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Total funding: $1.3bn
Leadership
Paul Nurse
(CEO, not founder)The first Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Was previously President of Rockefeller University in New York. In 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine as part of a team that discovered the role of protein molecules that control the duplication of cells.