Bradford University starts work on new innovation institute
Bradford University has started building an Institute of Pharmaceutical
Innovation (IPI) at its school of pharmacy.
The IPI, funded by a £2.3m grant from the Higher Education Funding
Council for England, is intended to provide a focal point for international
research excellence in drug design and medicines development.
Professor Brian Clark, project manager and deputy head of the school
of pharmacy, said: “Many drugs fail at the clinical trial and formulation
stages, but by that time four or five years’ work has already been
done. We can take large amounts of information about drugs and potential
drugs of the same type, and feed it into software packages and use that
information to assess whether this drug can go through trials, and what
is the right formulation.”
Building work on the IPI should be complete in May 2003. Apart from the
computer-based focus of the IPI, the building will also house an analytical
centre, which will provide facilities for biochemical, pharmaceutical
and chemical research at the university.
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