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London welcomes Europe’s biggest biomedical lab
St Pancreas has welcomed a £650 million biomedical laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute, which will facilitate 1,250 scientists in examining how illnesses develop and potential cures.
The laboratory will help answer fundamental questions about new ways to treat conditions such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections and diseases of the brain.
Sir Paul Nurse, the director of the institute, said the Institute would ‘attract brilliant, bold and creative scientists from the UK and around the world’.
Commenting on the UK’s decision to leave the EU, and the impact this could have on the country’s research capabilities, Nurse confirmed the Crick would lose a planned £10 million per year of EU funding, which would need to be replaced by government funding. However, Nurse maintained that since Britain was already a ‘great scientific nation’, the Crick would symbolise that the UK was still very much ‘open for business’.
The majority of funding for the lab has come from the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust.
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