Welcome to the School
The School is one of six Schools in the University. The School includes the Faculty of Biology, which contains eight departments, and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, which is a single department. The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research and the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre are inter-departmental institutes within the School. The Sainsbury Laboratory is our newest institute.
The School has strong research and teaching programmes. Together with the School of Clinical Medicine it has a thriving Graduate School.
The School houses or contributes to a number of research facilities and interdisciplinary research centres.
News and Features
- BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership: studentships Apply now
- Research, policy, practice: conservation in the round
- Brain cells created from patients' skin cells
- Breeding better grasses for food and fuel
- New clue in the battle against Australian Hendra virus
- Some recent awards for Cambridge biologists
- More research news