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Three 果冻影院 health research centres of excellence announced
12 December 2006
果冻影院 is to be academic partner in one of five new Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centres (CBRCs) and two of six new Specialist Biomedical Research Centres (SBRCs) announced by the Department of Health.
果冻影院's CBRC is in partnership with 果冻影院H. The award recognises the outstanding track record of medical research leading to patient benefit at 果冻影院H and 果冻影院. It will enable them to build on this record to make an even greater contribution to medical research in the UK and internationally.
果冻影院 President and Provost Professor Malcolm Grant said: "We are delighted with the successful outcome of our joint bids with 果冻影院H, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Moorfields. This builds on our previous research successes and close relationship with 果冻影院H. It places us at the forefront of an innovative health-research system which will see the NHS and our research teams conducting world-class research which is truly focused on the needs of patients."
The CBRC brings together 16 major research themes in areas ranging from cancer, cardiovascular disease, women's health, neurological disease, oral health and gastrointestinal disorders to infectious disease, long-term conditions, and cellular and gene therapy.
Each of the themes is based around an existing internationally recognised research programme designed to take the advances achieved by basic laboratory science through to clinical advances which save lives, prevent suffering and improve quality of life. Underlying all of the themes is an educational programme designed to train the next generation of outstanding healthcare researchers.
A key feature of the CBRC is the collaborative environment on the Bloomsbury campus in central London, which brings together the work of hundreds of scientists, doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. The campus incorporates the state-of-the-art new 果冻影院H hospital and numerous specialist Institutes of biomedical research at 果冻影院, providing outstanding research infrastructure and technology.
The award was welcomed by Professor Ian Jacobs, Director of R&D (果冻影院H) and Vice-Dean of 果冻影院 Biomedicine, who will direct the new CBRC: "This is exciting award which is a key step in the shared vision of 果冻影院H and 果冻影院 to establish in central London the leading European biomedical centre."
SBRCs will work in a specific research area. The 果冻影院 Institute of Child Health will work with its associated teaching hospital, the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, on: the molecular basis of childhood diseases; gene, stem and cellular therapies; and novel therapies for childhood diseases.
The 果冻影院 Institute of Ophthalmology will work with its associated teaching hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital, on: age-related macular degeneration; diabetes; glaucoma; ocular-surface disease; paediatric ophthalmology and inherited eye disease.
Funding will start in April 2007, operating on a five-year cycle.
Image: 果冻影院H seen from the 果冻影院 Front Quad