Planning green light for UKCMRI

Plans to build a world-leading medical research institute at St Pancras in London have been approved by councillors at Camden Town Hall. The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI), designed by the architects HOK with PLP Architecture, will have 1,500 staff including 1,250 scientists. UKCMRI is founded by four of the world's leading research organisations: the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and UCL. The members of the Development Control Committee voted in favour of the £500 million project at a meeting at the Town Hall. The Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK, Harpal Kumar outlined the benefits of the project to the councillors. Afterwards he welcomed their decision to approve the scheme: 'The councillors have brought this institute significantly closer to reality. It will help to tackle some of the most difficult scientific and medical questions ' bringing benefits to health and helping us to treat and beat diseases that affect us all - including cancers, heart disease and stroke, infections and diseases of the immune and nervous systems.
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