MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Sciences is a biomedical research institute based in West London, England. Research at the institute focuses on the understanding of the molecular and physiological basis of health and disease. The LMS was established in 1994 and receives core funding from the Medical Research Council like the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University. The institute is in partnership with Imperial College London and is located on the campus of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust at the Hammersmith Hospital. Since 2023 it has been led by its director, endocrinologist, Wiebke Arlt.

WWW lms.mrc.ac.uk 𝕏 MRC_LMS

Research

The LMS carries out discovery science. Its research aims to understand the fundamental mechanisms that underpin health and disease. Its The three main areas of research focus at the LMS are 1. Genes and the Environment 2. Sex Differences and 3. Cell identity across the lifecourse.

Building

The LMS is based across a number of buildings at the Hammersmith Hospital campus in West London, UK. In 2017 a design team were appointed composed of Hawkins\Brown, Buro Happold and Abell Nepp to develop a new home for the Laboratory of Medical Sciences. In August 2018 contractors were invited to bid for the construction of the building. In November a was submitted to the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The new LMS building, completed in December 2022, is based at the Hammersmith Hospital campus on the former site of the MRC cyclotron unit, which was decommissioned and demolished in 2014.