17 Apr 08

The new Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) was officially opened on 16 April 2008 by Sir William Castell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust.

Located at the Old Road Campus on the Churchill Hospital site, Oxford University's IBME offers a centralised venue for engineers, biologists and clinicians to work together and to coordinate expertise, discoveries and best practice in order to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of a range of conditions.

This £25m project provides purpose-built laboratories, shared common support facilities, a core of securely funded staff, the latest equipment for research and development and the right setting to promote collaboration among medical, biological and physical scientists and engineers.

The Institute also directly benefits from close proximity to the Oxford Centre for Cancer Medicine, the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, the Radiation Oncology and Biology Unit, the Jenner Institute and the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics.

Sir William Castell and the University's Vice-Chancellor, Dr John Hood, were among those who attended to celebrate the official opening of the IBME.