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UKCMRI plans approved
05 January 2011
Plans to build UKCMRI at St Pancras in London have been approved by councillors at Camden Town Hall. UKCMRI (UK Centre for Medical Research & Innovation) will bring together staff currently working at NIMR and at Cancer Research UK’s London Research Institute with researchers from UCL.
UKCMRI is founded by four of the world's leading research organisations: the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and UCL (University College London). It will have 1,500 staff including 1,250 scientists.
In October, the Government gave its commitment to UKCMRI by confirming its investment in the project through the Medical Research Council. Over half the funds are being contributed by Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and UCL. The Prime Minister David Cameron announced that UKCMRI would play a central role in the Government's National Infrastructure Plan to ensure the UK remains a world leader in science and research.
UKCMRI will harness the talent and potential of doctors, nurses, biologists, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, computer scientists and engineers to understand the underlying causes of disease. This will accelerate our ability to treat disease - bringing benefits to patients through the NHS and to the economy by developing a sector in which the UK already excels.
Chairman of UKCMRI, Sir David Cooksey
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