 The Keith Peters Building, housing the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit | |
| Abbreviation | MBU |
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| Formation | 1927 |
| Type | Research institute |
| Legal status | University Unit |
| Purpose | Mitochondrial research |
| Headquarters | The Keith Peters Building |
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Director | Professor Judy Hirst |
Parent organization | Medical Research Council |
| Website | MBU |
The MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (formerly the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit) is a department of the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge, funded through a strategic partnership between the Medical Research Council and the University. It is located at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital / Cambridge Biomedical Campus site in Cambridge, England. The unit is concerned with the study of the mitochondrion, as this organelle has a varied and critical role in many aspects of eukaryotic metabolism and is implicated in many metabolic, degenerative, and age-related human diseases.