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BRINGING THREE LEADING FACILITIES TOGETHER
To develop the new centre close to UCL’s Bloomsbury campus, we negotiated the freehold acquisition of the former Eastman Dental Hospital from UCL Hospitals Foundation Trust. Once complete, the new building will house the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (IoN), the UK Dementia Research Institute’s (DRI) headquarters, along with the DRI researchers already based at UCL, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery’s outpatient and imaging suites. The IoN is a world-leader in neuroscience research and education with researchers currently working across 11 London sites. The newly formed DRI is a £290 million joint venture from the Medical Research Council, Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK, with a mission to revolutionise dementia research. Bringing them together will accelerate research and treatments into currently incurable neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, epilepsy and dementia.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Once the planning approval is received in late 2019, work will begin with the aim to complete and open the centre in 2024.
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