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Two more universities to join UKCMRI
14 April 2011
Imperial College and King’s College have each signed a Memorandum of Understanding expressing their intent to join the existing partners: the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and UCL (University College London). Imperial and King’s would each contribute £40 million to the development of the new institute to match the contribution from the founding academic partner UCL.
Researchers from the academic partners will work with scientists from NIMR and the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (LRI). The additional funding will enable UKCMRI to do even more, more quickly than would otherwise have been the case.
The involvement of Imperial and King’s in the UKCMRI partnership offers the institute even greater scale and breadth of knowledge. It helps to enhance the opportunities for connections, creativity and discovery. This institute will not only carry out the highest quality biomedical research, it will also act to support the entire research endeavour in the UK.
Sir Paul Nurse, the Director and Chief Executive of UKCMRI
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