Research at the institute focuses on the understanding of the molecular and physiological basis of health and disease.
The LMS was established in 1994 and receives core funding from the Medical Research Council like the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University.
[3] The LMS is based across a number of buildings at the Hammersmith Hospital campus in West London, UK.
In 2017 a design team were appointed composed of Hawkins\Brown, Buro Happold and Abell Nepp to develop a new home for the Laboratory of Medical Sciences.
The new building will be based at the Hammersmith Hospital campus on the former cyclotron site, which was decommissioned and demolished in 2014.