Research partnerships

We aim to bring together people and ideas to create new opportunities in research.

We work with our founders, and other research institutes and universities in the UK and internationally to identify areas where we can work together to answer research questions, tackle specific health problems or share resources. We also support our researchers to collaborate widely.

Our founding organisations

Find out more about the six organisations which came together to create the Francis Crick Institute.

Our founders

University partnerships

We partner with UCL, Imperial and King's College London to carry out research across a range of scientific disciplines.

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Crick Africa Network

The Crick Africa Network (CAN) increases research capacity in Africa to tackle health problems locally and globally. We established CAN as an equitable partnership with institutions in The Gambia, Ghana, South Africa and Uganda to shift the balance in favour of African scientists working in Africa.

Explore our work

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Worldwide Influenza Centre

The Worldwide Influenza Centre at the Crick is one of seven centres in the world responsible for analysing influenza viruses circulating in the human population, overseen by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Find out about the centre

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Legacy study

The Legacy Study was initially established in February 2021 to build on the bank of data generated by the Crick COVID Consortium in the early months of the COVID pandemic. It's now a partnership study between University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre and the Crick providing insights into immune responses to COVID vaccines and infections led by Dr Emma Wall.

Read about the partnership

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WWW Consortium

The WWW Consortium brings together three studies of healthy adults in West Africa, the West Indies and West London who have received COVID-19 vaccines.

Discover our research

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Innovation and business

At the Crick, we believe that science can deliver advances in health, economic growth and global wellbeing.

Discover our innovation and business team