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14/10/2004
Queen’s opens new £22m cancer research centre
A new £22 million cancer research centre has been launched at Queen's University today.
The Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, based at the University's Lisburn Road campus, will focus on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer through discovering the causes of the disease.
The state-of-the-art facility will house high quality internationally renowned research staff and will complement the new clinical cancer centre at Belfast City Hospital, making Belfast one of Europe's leaders in the battle against what is a major cause of death in the 21st century.
Launching the new centre, Queen's Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Gregson said it would form part of a major strategy to provide a dynamic high-quality cancer research and treatment programme in Northern Ireland.
"The creation of a world-class Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, recognised as flagship by the international scientific community, will ensure that Queen's and Northern Ireland contributes in a strategically important way to future UK and international research initiatives in cancer," he said.
Funding for the project - one of the largest undertaken by the University – has been provided by the Support Programme for University Research (SPUR), Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF) and Queen's.
Work on the new building is expected to begin in the spring of 2005 with a completion date of March 2007.
(MB/GMCG)
The Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, based at the University's Lisburn Road campus, will focus on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer through discovering the causes of the disease.
The state-of-the-art facility will house high quality internationally renowned research staff and will complement the new clinical cancer centre at Belfast City Hospital, making Belfast one of Europe's leaders in the battle against what is a major cause of death in the 21st century.
Launching the new centre, Queen's Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Gregson said it would form part of a major strategy to provide a dynamic high-quality cancer research and treatment programme in Northern Ireland.
"The creation of a world-class Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, recognised as flagship by the international scientific community, will ensure that Queen's and Northern Ireland contributes in a strategically important way to future UK and international research initiatives in cancer," he said.
Funding for the project - one of the largest undertaken by the University – has been provided by the Support Programme for University Research (SPUR), Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF) and Queen's.
Work on the new building is expected to begin in the spring of 2005 with a completion date of March 2007.
(MB/GMCG)
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