UK research gets {pound}84m boost

doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7558.64-a

BMJ 2006;333:64 (8 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7558.64-a

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UK research gets £84m boost

London Andrew Cole

Twelve medical institutions in the UK and Ireland are to share an £84m (€121m; $155m) award to boost clinical research facilities over the next five years.

The award, the largest of its type, comes from a consortium of research funders led by the Wellcome Trust, and will help make the United Kingdom a world leader in clinical research, says the trust’s director Mark Walport.

The money will go to developing existing clinical research facilities and setting up new ones. The facilities would give the UK a greatly enhanced capacity to do first class research in key areas including ageing, stroke, cancer, mental health, and the metabolic syndrome, said Dr Walport.

The 12 centres to benefit are Dublin; Belfast; Oxford; Cambridge; Newcastle; Birmingham; Edinburgh; Manchester; the Institute of Cancer Research; Imperial College, London; King’s College, London, and University College London.

Dr Walport explained that the new awards would . . . [Full text of this article]

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