GRL Board
- Date:
- February 1998-November 2001
- Reference:
- GRL/DUR/B/1
- Part of:
- Richard Durbin: archives
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Papers and minutes from Genome Research Limited (GRL) Board of Directors meetings. GRL was the charitable company established by the Wellcome Trust in 1992 to manage the Sanger Centre.
Publication/Creation
February 1998-November 2001
Physical description
10 files
Biographical note
In the early 1990s the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council agreed to fund a new genome sequencing centre that would ultimately sequence part of the human genome as well as the genomes of other organisms. The result was the Sanger Centre, named after the double Nobel Prize winning biochemist Frederick Sanger. The Centre was established in 1992 and based at the MRC's Laboratory of Molecular Biology whilst suitable accommodation was found. A site at Hinxton, a few miles outside Cambridge, was initially leased and then purchased and staff moved on site in 1993. The Centre changed its name in 2001 to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.