On 1 April 2015, the laboratories of the London Research Institute became part of the new Francis Crick Institute (the Crick). The Francis Crick Institute is a consortium of size of the UK’s most successful scientific and academic organisations - the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust, UCL (University College London), Imperial College London and King’s College London. The Crick is a state of the art, multi-disciplinary biomedical research centre dedicated to understanding the basic biology underlying human health.