Building communities
Global partnerships are essential to addressing the world's most pressing — and complex — biological and medical challenges. At the Ó³»´«Ã½, researchers create, steward, and partner in international collaborations with scientists around the world. We work with researchers and patients to tackle important challenges in biomedicine and find innovative, high-impact solutions. Learn more about #HowWeScience.
Human Cell Atlas: International collaboration
A global consortium of thousands of scientists is building a complete reference map of all human cells.
The (HCA) consortium aims to create a complete reference map of all human cells and advance our understanding of health and disease. Because no single lab can complete such a massive undertaking, scientists from hundreds of institutions around the world have come together to build the HCA. During the initial phase of this project, researchers at the Ó³»´«Ã½ and the Wellcome Sanger Institute helped mobilize international scientific communities to start planning this ambitious initiative. This large-scale effort aspires to generate resources and data and make them open and accessible to researchers anywhere, to help accelerate scientific and medical progress.
