Genetics Research Organizations

This is a list of organizations involved in genetics research or related activities.

Companies

• Affymetrix, UK [1]
• Applera, Norwalk, CT [2]
• Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA [3]
• Asper Biotech [4]
• Celera Genomics
• Genentech, San Francisco, CA [5]
• Genetix, Hampshire, UK [6]

Research institutes

Africa

• Kenya
  • International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, [7]

Asia/Pacific

• Australia
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [8]
• India
  • Centre for population genetics, KolKatta
  • Department of Genetics, Dr. ALM. PG. IBMS, University of Madras
• Hong Kong
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong, [9]
  • Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology, [10]
  • Institute of Molecular Biology, Hong Kong, [11]

• China
  • Beijing Genomics Institute, Beijing, Beijing Genomics Institute website
  • The National Human Genome Centre in Southern China, Shanghai
  • The National Human Genome Centre in Northern China, Beijing
  • Huada Human Genome Research Centre
  • Bio Island Haizhu, Guangzhou [12]
  • The Human Genome Centre of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)

• Singapore
  • Biopolis, Singapore [13]
  • Genome Institute of Singapore [14]
  • Bioinformatik Institute, Singapore [15]
  • Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology [16]
  • Bioinformatics Center, Singapore [17]

• Taiwan
  • National Health Research Institutes [18]

Canada

• Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia [19]
• McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Quebec [20]
• The Centre for Applied Genomics, Toronto, Ontario [21]

Europe

• Austria
  • Institut für Forstgenetik, Vienna [22]

• Germany
  • Zentrum für genetische Forschung, (part of Max-Planck-Institute für Psychiatrie und Biochemie) München
  • Institut für Humangenetik, Hamburg [23]
  • Institut für Humangenetik, (Klinikum der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), Heidelberg [24]
  • Institut für Humangenetik, (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität), Erlangen-Nürnberg [25]
  • Institut für Humangenetik (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität), Bonn [26]
  • Institut für Humangenetik, (University of Lübeck), Lübeck [27]
  • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin [28]
  • European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL), Heidelberg

• Italy
  • International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Maccarese (Fiumicino) [29]

Global Crop Diversity Trust www.croptrust.org

• UK
  • Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge [30]
  • Imperial College Genetics and Genomics Research Institute, Hammersmith Hospital, London [31]
  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK

United States of America

• Arizona, USA
  • Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix founded in July 2002 [32]

• Arkansas, USA
  • Whitetail Genetic Research Institute, Jerusalem, [33]

• California, USA
  • Genetic Information Research Institute, Mountain View founded 1994 [34]
  • Stanford University, Stanford, California [35]

• Florida, USA
  • University of Florida Genetics Institute, Miami [36]

• Maryland, USA
  • J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland
  • The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), founded in 1992 by Craig Venter
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase [37]

• Massachusetts, USA
  • Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, [38]

• Missouri, USA
  • Genome Sequencing Center, St Louis, [39]

• New York, USA
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, [40]
  • Center for Functional Genomics, SUNY Albany, Rensselaer, NY, [41]
• Washington, DC, USA
  • Research Institute for Genetic and Human Therapy - Instituto di Ricerca per la Terapia Genetica Umana, [42]

• USA
  • Center for the Advancement of Genomics
  • National Human Genome Research Institute founded 1989 [43]

Genetic research watchdog organizations

• GeneWatch [44], UK
• Council for Responsible Genetics [45], US
• Smallpox Bio Security [46] Conference 21-22 Oct 2003, Geneva, Switzerland
• Sunshine Project [47], Hamburg, Germany and Austin, Texas