About Strangeways

Strangeways Research Laboratory was ‘born’ in 1905 as a small research hospital founded by Thomas Strangeways in Hartington Grove, Cambridge. The hospital moved to its current location in Worts Causeway in 1912 and was renamed the Strangeways Research Laboratory in 1928.

The Laboratory has had a distinguished history as a centre for research into rheumatoid arthritis and other connective tissue disorders. Since 1997, however, the building has been a centre for genetic epidemiology.

The Strangeways Trust was set up as an independent charity. The sole trustee is now the University of Cambridge.

The Laboratory also houses the independent Foundation for Genomics and Population Health(PHG Foundation) . Other research groups within the building are supported by the Medical Research Council and European Commission