Research Organisations

J Craig Venter Institute
A merger of several affiliated and legacy organizations -The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG), The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, The Joint Technology Center, and the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA). All these organizations have become one large multidisciplinary genomic-focused organization.

Karolinska Institute
Karolinska Institutet is one of Europe's largest medical universities and is Sweden's largest centre for medical training and research.Through awarding the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, it has an invaluable contact network throughout the international medical scientific community.

National Academies
The National Academies consist of the following 4 organisations: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. The National Academies bring together committees of experts in all areas of scientific and technological endeavour. These experts serve pro bono to address critical national issues and give advice to the US federal government and the public on Science, Engineering & Medicine.

National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
NCBI is a US government funded national resource for molecular biology information which creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information.