Francis Albert Eley Crew

This was originally housed at High School Yards, transferring to King's Buildings in 1924, there linking to the Chemistry Department.

His staff at the Institute was illustrious: including John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Lancelot Hogben, Julian Huxley, Bertold Paul Wiesner and (as a postgraduate) Honor Fell.

At this time the UK’s first Pregnancy Diagnosis Laboratory was also set up under Crew as a tangential area of public benefit, linked to their research.

In the 1930s its staff was increased by scientists from Germany and Italy including Hermann Joseph Muller, Charlotte Auerbach and Guido Pontecorvo.

[6] In 1928 he was created the first Professor of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh, a chair indirectly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

[9] On 28 May 1943, the President of the Polish Republic, Władysław Raczkiewicz, created Crew a Commander of the Order "Polonia Restituta" alongside Professor Sydney Smith and Sir Thomas Holland, at a ceremony in the University's McEwan Hall.

On 4 June 1946, Crew attended a special graduation ceremony at the University of Edinburgh marking the 5th anniversary of the Polish School of Medicine's foundation.

[10] Professor John Crofton, dean of the medical faculty, said in the opening address: "[...] to bring about the Polish School of Medicine [...] required a substantial pinch of imagination as a catalyst.

[3] In 1944 he succeeded Percy Samuel Lelean in the Bruce and John Usher Chair in Public Health at the University of Edinburgh.