£25m boost to Nottingham health research
The new research centre in Nottingham |
Drug discovery will be among five key areas tackled by a new £25m research centre at the University of Nottingham.
The Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, due to be officially opened after
The Journal went to press this week, will also focus on cancer research,
stem cell science, bacteriology and regenerative medicine. Researchers
from the university’s schools of pharmacy, medicine, chemistry,
molecular biology, human development, mathematics and engineering will
collaborate with the 300 scientists who will work at the centre.
Kevin Shakesheff, director of the centre and a pharmacist, said that
the scientists who will be based at the centre have already made breakthroughs
that have resulted in the launch of new medicines and the formation of
biotechnology companies.
At a ceremony in The Netherlands last month, Professor Shakesheff received
the Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress’s Research Achievement
Award. The award was presented in recognition of his work on the application
of injectable polymers to regenerative medicine.
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