Planning permission has been granted for the development of 70 acres of land next to Addenbrooke’s Hospital on the southern fringe of Cambridge to provide 2.3 million sq ft of biomedical research and development facilities.
The Helsinki University of Technology is to be reformed, with the current 12 departments being reorganised into four faculties. The change will take effect on 1 January 2008.
Director Leon Sandler talks about how MIT’s Deshpande Center is attracting a combination of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and managers to jump start new ideas in science and technology.
Researchers using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and working with scientists, have become the first to elucidate the structure of a membrane protein, an important advance for drug discovery.
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