World Class Future Science
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Norfolk is home to a cluster of internationally-renowned research organisations. They are working together to tackle the major challenges facing all of us in the 21st Century – the sustainability of our environment; our food supplies and healthy ageing. There are over 2500 scientists working to find realistic and practical solutions; who then have the infrastructure and support to translate these discoveries into commercially successful business.
The John Innes Centre, the Institute of Food Research (IFR) , the Sainsbury Laboratory and the new Genome Analysis Centre are all world-leading organisations, who together form the largest concentration of food and plant scientists in Europe. The IFR, for example, was recently ranked in the top two of 36,000 world-wide research organisations for the influence of its research.
Norfolk is also home to authoritative climate research institutions like the Tyndall Centre, the Low Carbon Innovation Centre and the University of East Anglia (UEA). The School of Environmental Studies at the UEA leads the global debates on climate change and environmental sustainability and boasts the highest research rankings in its field.
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital together with the schools of medicine and pharmaceuticals are undertaking research into how we can all become healthier throughout our lives. In turn this ties in to the work done with the IFR and the UEA School of Social Sciences helping translate the findings into long term changes of behaviour for all of society.
All this ground breaking research into future sciences is supported by the team at the Norwich Research Park (NRP) and their incubation facility enabling innovative research to be translated into commercial success. Over £400 million has been invested in the NRP in the last five years alone. World Class future science research is normal for Norfolk.
Hidden Gem Case Study – Achor
For more information contact Dr Robin Daniels at the Norwich Research Park robin.daniels@nrp.org.uk or telephone 01603 450992.
