£12.6m research centre to be built in Leicester
The University of Leicester is to create a £12.6m Cardiovascular Research Centre (CRC), doubling the amount of space available for heart research in the city.
Construction company Morgan Sindall has been awarded the contract to build the university’s research centre, which will be based at Leicester’s Glenfield Hospital.
The four-storey building will be an extension of the hospital’s clinical sciences wing which houses the university’s medical research and teaching facilities.
The centre was designed by Birmingham-based architect ADP.
Professor Nilesh Samani, British Heart Foundation professor of cardiology at the University of Leicester, said: “The CRC will provide high quality laboratory and academic space that will be essential in realising our bold and novel research vision and will ultimately benefit families and patients whose lives have been affected by cardiovascular disease.”
Included within the building will be laboratories is a 'Biobank' capable of storing samples from up to 100,000 individuals, a clinical research informatics unit and a data to knowledge unit which will capture, code and translate anonymous patient data for research.
Work is due for completion in February 2012.
