UKCMRI: launch of science vision and new building designs

A consortium of the UK's most prestigious scientific and academic institutions has laid out its plans for the biggest centre for biomedical research and innovation in Europe. The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI). UCL is one of the four founding partners for the venture,along with the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust. The consortium today released its vision for the institute alongside designs for the building dubbed a 'cathedral for science'. UKCMRI will be based at St Pancras and Somers Town in the London Borough of Camden. The vision was drafted by a panel of leading international scientists who came together to conceive of an institute capable of tackling the underlying causes of our most challenging health problems. They were advised by experts from Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, the US National Institutes of Health and other world-renowned institutions, as well as biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry leaders.