University Of Birmingham To Get New Life Sciences Facilities
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The University of Birmingham has purchased land for a new life sciences park in Selly Oak.
The higher education institute now plans to work with partners to develop the new location into a hub of life sciences research. Among the plans for the new park are state-of-the-art research and commercial facilities.
It will be particularly good for the university’s ongoing research into healthcare fields, with the new site located close to the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham Women’s Hospital.
Professor Sir David Eastwood, vice-chancellor at the university, commented: “This is a landmark step for our dynamic regional collaboration in life sciences and enhances our essential infrastructure enabling great advances in the way we tackle global healthcare challenges.”
He added that the institution is already conducting research into cancer, chronic and rare diseases, mental health, trauma and antibiotic resistance.
The University of Birmingham isn’t the only higher education institution in the UK looking to extend what it can do in the life sciences sector.
Earlier this month the University of Leicester announced that it is hoping to establish a new Innovation Centre in the UK’s first life sciences opportunity zone. The university will work with the Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership as well as the owners of the proposed site Charnwood Campus, to make this vision a reality.
The aim of the centre would be to foster collaboration between academics and businesses, leading to the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
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