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University of Leicester to build research center
April 5, 2011
The University of Leicester is consolidating its position as one of the U.K.’s academic centers for heart disease research by building a 2,200 sq m Cardiovascular Research Centre (CRC) at the city’s Glenfield Hospital, according to Pharma Times.
The center will cost approximately $20 million, and will double the research space available by adding a four-story extension to the hospital’s clinical sciences wing.
The wing already houses a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, set up at the hospital in April 2009 as a partnership between the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
The new CRC will include a Biobank capable of storing samples from up to 100,000 individuals, a Clinical Research Informatics Unit and a Data to Knowledge Unit.
The site will capture, code and translate anonymous patient data for research, as well as provide an advanced information-technology link between the university and Glenfield Hospital.
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