Cambridge and India

Life Sciences

Cambridge is a world leader in biomedical sciences. Research in this field at Cambridge has advanced our understanding of the mechanisms of life, and increased our hopes of curing major diseases. Many names synonymous with advances that helped unravel the mechanisms of life worked at Cambridge: William Harvey (circulation of the blood), Charles Darwin (natural selection), Hans Krebs (citric acid cycle), Fred Sanger (structure of insulin), Francis Crick and James Watson (structure of DNA) and John Sulston (human genome sequencing).

The spirit of enquiry that fuelled these pioneering scientists continues to drive the work in departments and specialist centres across the University today. Many Cambridge-educated scientists move into blue-sky research that breaks the boundaries of knowledge; others form spin-off enterprises that transform laboratory-based discoveries into therapeutic applications.

In this section

Drug Discovery and Biochemistry

Neuroscience

Stem Cells and Genetics