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Last Updated: 04/06/2026

Wellcome Genome Campus

Cambridge
Founded 1994
Genomics and biodata research campus near Cambridge

Wellcome Genome Campus is a 125-acre research campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, owned by Wellcome. It is home to the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Connecting Science and the BioData Innovation Centre, an incubator for genomics and biodata companies.

The campus houses nearly 3,000 researchers, engineers and clinicians working across genome sequencing, computational biology and data science.

A major expansion is underway that will more than triple the campus footprint by the late 2020s.