McDonnell Genome Institute

McDonnell Genome Institute

Established	1993
Field of research	Genomics Bioinformatics
Director	Jeffrey Milbrandt
Location	St. Louis, Missouri
Affiliations	Washington University School of Medicine
Website	genome.wustl.edu

McDonnell Genome Institute (The Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell III Genome Institute) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of three NIH funded large-scale sequencing centers in the United States.^[1] Affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine and the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, the McDonnell Genome Institute is creating, testing and implementing new approaches to the study of genomics with the goal of understanding human health and disease, as well as evolution and the biology of other organisms.