£40M funds new biomedical engineering centre at ICL

The Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Hub – a new pioneering biomedical engineering centre- is to be built at Imperial College London, thanks to an unprecedented £40 million gift from Michael Uren OBE and the Michael Uren Foundation. The new centre will be located at Imperial West, the College's  25-acre research and innovation campus in White City.

 Sir Keith O'Nions, President of Imperial College London, said: "Imperial is profoundly grateful to Michael Uren and his Foundation for this remarkable gift, the most generous it has ever received. It will create a wholly new building and set of facilities for engineers and medics to come together and make new discoveries and innovations on an unparalleled scale. It provides enormous impetus to the development of Imperial West as an innovation district."

 "What I find so exciting about this project is that here is Imperial building one of the biggest research centres in the world within a few miles of the City of London, which itself has become the biggest financial centre in the world today.  By putting the two together, what is quite clear is that the investment world will be watching for, and waiting for, the research and inventions which will create tomorrow's great companies, “ Michael Uren added.

 Michael Uren OBE, a 1943 Imperial graduate in Mechanical Engineering and founder of Civil and Marine Ltd is already regarded as one of the UK's most generous philanthropists in the fields of medical research, education, the armed forces and conservation of wildlife.