The LRI currently houses 45 research groups dealing with broad range of subjects including immunology, cell cycle control, DNA damage and repair, cell division and many others. Among the Institute's current employees are 2 Nobel Laureates, Tim Hunt and Paul Nurse who shared a Nobel prize for their work on cell cycle regulation, as well as many other outstanding scientists who have received number of other international prizes. The Institute is associated with many major discoveries including the discovery of p53, probably the world's best known tumor suppressor gene, the link between growth factors and cancer, relationship of DNA tumor viruses and their targets or the cell cycle regulation. In addition the LRI also accepts about 20 graduate students from all over the world every year and together with the University College London provides them with a full Ph.D. program.
Unlike the Clare Hall site which is dedicated to research into the mechanisms of various DNA-related processes, the "LIF" site located at 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields deals with much broader range of topics. The Lincoln's Inn Fields laboratories were opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 11 June 1963 and have served their purpose ever since. In 1973 the building doubled in size when a new laboratory extension was opened, and finally a rooftop extension was opened in 1997. Nowadays the building has 10 storeys, 8 above and 2 under the ground and it houses 35 research groups together with some of the core-facilities equipped with a state of the art equipment including electron, light and super resolution microscopes, fluorescent activated cell sorters or high throughput robots for various purposes.
Since all the staff and equipment of the LRI is scheduled to move to the new Francis Crick Institute by 2015, the fate of the 44 LIF building is currently not known. The Francis Crick Institute is currently being built near the St. Pancras station as a joint effort of CRUK, MRC, Wellcome Trust, Imperial College London, King's College London and University College London and when finished will be the largest center for biomedical research in Europe.
If interested, for more information, please see the homepage of the LRI. All you have to do is to google it. ;)
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As of October 2015, the cache has sadly been replaced with a magnetic nano. Coordinates and the hint have been updated accordingly. The cache is now available 24/7.
