£39m uni research centre to open
Thursday, May 7th
A £39m research centre, billed as one of the largest biomedical complexes in Europe, will today be officially opened in Manchester.
The AV Hill Building will house 300 scientists in 50 research groups from the University of Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences and Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences.
The 6,000 sq metre facility, named after Archibald Vivian Hill, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine while at the university, connects the Core Technology Facility, Michael Smith and Stopford Buildings.
The centre, which will mainly focus on neuroscience and immunology research, is adjacent to the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility and the Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Professor Martin Humphries, the dean of the Faculty of Life Science, said: "This facility will further enhance the major programme of biomedical research established in Manchester over the past ten years.
"The operations group behind its design spent 18 months considering not only how this building will operate, but also how the biomedical corridor - incorporating the teaching hospitals - can be better integrated. Benefits include the clustering of core equipment, easily accessible resources for researchers and enhanced opportunities for collaboration."
By Joanne Birtwistle
