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John Innes Centre

JIC is an independent, international centre of excellence in plant science and microbiology. Our mission is to carry out fundamental and strategic research, to train scientists and to make our findings available to society.

The scientific research at the Centre makes use of a wide range of disciplines in the biological and chemical sciences, including cell biology, biochemistry, chemistry, genetics, molecular biology, computational and mathematical biology.

The John Innes Centre is a registered charity (No. 223852) and a company limited by guarantee (registered in England No. 511709).

The JIC is an institute of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

The JIC leases the extensive land and buildings it uses from the John Innes Foundation, an independent charity (registered charity No. 313462) that was formed in 1910 following a bequest from Mr John Innes.

The vast majority of our funding is won, in open competition, from various funding agencies in the UK and worldwide. We are currently supported by over 40 different organisations. The Centre is grant-aided by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). For further information visit our web-site www.jic.ac.uk

Added: 9th Jun 2003