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LONDON | The Francis Crick Institute

One of the largest current developments in terms of Medical Research Facilities in the world, the Francis Crick Institute is currently under construction in London and scheduled to open in 2015. Named after Francis Crick who with James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins was noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule at the University of Cambridge in 1953 for which they were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine - "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

http://www.crick.ac.uk/

http://www.hok.com/design/region/eur...ick-institute/

http://www.laingorourke.com/our-work...institute.aspx

The Francis Crick Institute is currently under construction behind the British Library at St Pancras in London.
















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The Francis Crick Institute - London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick_Institute

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The University of Cambridge New Biomedical Campus - The University of Oxford are also investing heavily in a new biomedical campus to be known as the Old Road Campus.

http://cambridge-biomedical.com/

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Britain is also home to a number of large medical charities and significant trust funds such as the Wellcome Trust.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome_Trust

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A couple of interesting facts about British Medical Research -

According to Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, one in five of the world's biggest-selling prescription drugs were developed in the UK.

Whilst the UK with less than 1% of the worlds population and less than 3% of global investment produces over 15% of the worlds most influential scientific papers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/24206119


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Britain is home to GlaxoSmithKline, the largest European drug maker, and AstraZeneca. The industry adds about £7.5 billion a year to the economy, and one in five of the world's top treatments was developed in Britain, according to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/bu...e.4663653.html
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The Royal Marsden (London) and its academic partner, The Institute of Cancer Research, have discovered or developed more new anti-cancer drugs than the National Cancer Institute in the USA.

http://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/priva...expertise.aspx

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“Our research is behind 19 of the top 20 drugs used to treat cancer patients worldwide today. Our work has underpinned the huge progress we are now seeing in preventing more deaths from lung cancer. And our progress over decades has helped to develop radiotherapy as a major form of treatment for half of all cancer patients.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...-year-low.html

Furthermore British Scientists Peter Manfield and Godfrey Hounsfield were instrumental in the development of MRI Machines and CT Scanners used to diagnose conditions such as Cancer and were awarded Noble Prizes for their efforts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mansfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Hounsfield


It's also worth noting that London has more top global universities than any other individual city according to QS Worldwide University Rankings, with the city's UCL and Imperial College London both ranked among the world's top five universities, with Kings College London also makes the global top twenty rankings and the London School of Economics being ranked as one of the best in terms of it's specialised field.

http://www.topuniversities.com/unive...-cities/london

http://www.topuniversities.com/unive...=false+search=

London is also home to the vast British Library with over 150 million items and 3 million new items added annually, as well as the National Archive at Kew with documents spanning over a thousand years, the London Metropolitan Archive, BBC Archive, part of the BFI Archive as well as numerous libraries and archives belonging to London's vast array of Museum and Academic Libraries. On top of this London is home to a massive public library service with over 395 branches and over 17 million books.

The major London Universities and Research Centres are currently investing heavily in terms of new buildings and campuses, with Imperial planning an impressive new campus at White City, King's College building a superb new campus at Canada Water and UCL being heavily involved in both the Francis Crick Institute as well as still considering a new campus based to the East of London, Queen Mary University of London is also planning a vast medical city at Whitechapel, the London School of Economics are also investing heavily in new Campus buildings, whilst in terms of arts and culture the establishment of the new University of the Arts with a new campus at Kings Cross is of major significance in terms of London's standing as a global centre for art education.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgs...erry-Site.aspx

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.u...apel_1_2931888

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...k-8982657.html

http://www.kingscross.co.uk/central-saint-martins

Here's The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine plan for a new 22.75 acre (Imperial West Campus) at White City in London

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/imperialwest





The LSE recently announced that Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has won a competition to design a new centre for social sciences at the London School of Economics, which will be on the Houghton Street/Clare Market site.

http://www.dezeen.com/2013/11/19/rog...-of-economics/

http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/ne...Sciences-.aspx

http://www.lse.ac.uk/aboutLSE/meetTh...nn-Fields.aspx





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In this recent BBC series -Science Britannica , Professor Brian Cox charts the history and influence of British Science.

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I hear that the Faroe Islands are at the pinnacle of scientific achievement. They have produced the highest number of Nobel laureates per capita of any country in the world...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tes_per_capita
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I hear that the Faroe Islands are at the pinnacle of scientific achievement. They have produced the highest number of Nobel laureates per capita of any country in the world...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tes_per_capita
And do the Faroe Islands produce one in five major pharma drugs in the world, or 19 out of the top 20 Cancer Drugs in the world, or were they instrumental in the development of the CT Scanner or MRI Machine, or numerous other such breakthroughs. As for the documentary posted about British Scientists over the ages, most did not receive a Nobel Prize because the first nobel prizes weren't awarded until 1901. So many of the greatest Scientists ever from Isaac Newton to Charles Darwin never received a Nobel Prizes and neither did many British inventors such as Frank Whittle who invented the turbojet engine and numerous others. The Nobel Prize being limited in both scope and history.

The fact that the Faroe Islands had a Nobel Prize Winner is all well and good, but are the Faroe Islands a constant source of scientific knowledge or was Niels Ryberg Finsen just born there, before moving to Copenhagen in Denmark where he went to Boarding School as a young boy, before studying at the University of Copenhagen where he received his noble prize. I am sure many scientists who have received Nobel Prizes on behalf of American and other such Institutions were actually born elsewhere, and in terms of certain top universities they are scientific hubs and attract the brightest and best. As for Britain it is a major centre for pharma and medical research among other scientific research and will without doubt go on to make many more discoveries.

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And do the Faroe Islands produce one in five major pharma drugs in the world, or 19 out of the top 20 Cancer Drugs in the world, or were they instrumental in the development of the CT Scanner or MRI Machine, or numerous other such breakthroughs. As for the documentary posted about British Scientists over the ages, most did not receive a Nobel Prize because the first nobel prizes weren't awarded until 1901. So many of the greatest Scientists ever from Isaac Newton to Charles Darwin never received a Nobel Prizes and neither did many British inventors such as Frank Whittle who invented the turbojet engine and numerous others. The Nobel Prize being limited in both scope and history.

The fact that the Faroe Islands had a Nobel Prize Winner is all well and good, but are the Faroe Islands a constant source of scientific knowledge or was Niels Ryberg Finsen just born there, before moving to Copenhagen in Denmark where he went to Boarding School as a young boy, before studying at the University of Copenhagen where he received his noble prize. I am sure many scientists who have received Nobel Prizes on behalf of American and other such Institutions were actually born elsewhere, and in terms of certain top universities they are scientific hubs and attract the brightest and best. As for Britain it is a major centre for pharma and medical research among other scientific research and will without doubt go on to make many more discoveries.
I will forgive you for not catching my sarcasm; you seem like a very serious fellow.

I would only add that you should be careful in suggesting that the U.S. mostly poaches talent from the rest of the world, while Britain taps its brilliant and resourceful populace for its scientific achievements. Case in point, you point to GlaxoSmithKline as a symbol of Britain's greatness in the pharmaceutical industry, but you fail to mention that GSK traces a significant portion of its history back to the U.S., specifically Philadelphia.

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