Invest in ME gains Lottery funding to support proposed Centre of Excellence

[AndyPR]

More at http://future.cofeforme.eu/ce-bl-grant-1610.shtml

 

[John Mac]

Does anyone know how much the amount is?

 

[trishrhymes]

Sounds good. I've been impressed by reports from their conferences. I wish them well.

And not a psychiatrist in sight.

 

[AndyPR]

I don't know the specific amount awarded, the Awards for All grants can be anything between £300 and £10,000 so the obvious guess is at the upper end of that scale.

 

[AndyPR]

Quadram Institute’s £400,000 boost from Big C
10 October, 2016
Norwich Research Park’s (NRP) planned Quadram Institute (QI) partners received a huge boost to help mark the launch of a £3 million fundraising campaign with an opening £400,000 donation from Big C.

“This significant donation is a tremendous contribution and kick starts the appeal we are launching to help meet QI’s £75 million building costs,” said Prof David Richardson, Vice-Chancellor at the University of East Anglia (UEA). “Big C are the first donors to support the development of the building, which is scheduled to open in May 2018, and we thank them for this generous leadership gift.”

The QI brings together research teams from the Institute of Food Research (IFR), UEA and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) as part of a major initiative, co-funded by the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). It will create a new world-class facility to provide a step-change in food and health research and innovation to address major health conditions.

http://news.ifr.ac.uk/2016/10/quadram-institutes-400000-boost-from-big-c/#.V_wDGbffxlY.facebook

The new institute encompasses the Institute of Food Research, which is a partner in the Invest in ME Research on the gut in ME, and the IiMER Centre of Excellence is based at Norwich Research Park, where the IFR/Quadram Institute is based, but includes UEA and Earlham Institute (formerly The Genome Analysis Centre) and the University Hospital.

For more info and to donate to Invest in ME to support bio-medical research in the UK see http://future.cofeforme.eu/ce-index.shtml

 

[Jo Best]

Founding Director of the Quadram Institute, Ian Charles, gave the keynote speech at the 2015 Invest in ME Conference (IIMEC10). Keynote Speech: Solving ME/CFS: What a Research Park Has to Offer in Resolving a Chronic Disease Such as ME. He's also quoted on the Support for the Invest in ME Research Centre of Excellence page -
http://future.cofeforme.eu/ce-Support-cofeforme.shtml

 

[trishrhymes]

Maybe all us UK sufferers will move to Norfolk if this centre of excellence gets going!

 

[justy]

Maybe all us UK sufferers will move to Norfolk if this centre of excellence gets going!

I'm certainly considering it!

 

[Jo Best]

Sounds good. I've been impressed by reports from their conferences. I wish them well.

And not a psychiatrist in sight.

Except Mady Hornig

 

[JohnCB]

Maybe all us UK sufferers will move to Norfolk if this centre of excellence gets going!

The very thought of moving fills me with horror. Perhaps they should all come to me.

I suppose they could send a giant helicopter and pick up my house with me in it, but it would have to be a very quiet helicopter.

Edit: typo