The NRP is home to our world-class University, the UK's eighth largest hospital, several world-class centres for plant and microbial sciences, the country's premier food research institute and one of only two Genome mapping centres in the UK.
This stellar concentration of scientific power in Norfolk is probably one of the country's best kept secrets, but the centres are within a few minutes' walk of each other and collaborate in training, teaching, and developing a common Norwich Science Vision. This gives us confidence that together we can address some of the most threatening causes of ill health.
Through translational research on the NRP, we want to create real benefits for patients. This involves turning early-stage innovations into new health therapies – medicines and treatments that make a difference to the lives and futures of real people.
We are confident that through this unique assembly of world class scientists the NRP will become the place where future discoveries are made, breakthroughs achieved and ultimately lives changed.
'The Difference' Campaign will initially focus upon areas of research where we possess specific talents, and where the NRP represents the most likely place in the world to take the lead in finding answers. These include prostate cancer, the second most common cancer causing premature death in men and gastrointestinal research, where we will focus upon better understanding and treatment of some of the most common and debilitating conditions, such as Crohn's disease and digestive system cancers. We will also put new effort into the need to quickly find answers to antibiotic resistant disease, such as MRSA and bone diseases.
Our goals are ambitious and to achieve them we need to attract, by 2014, an extra 100 research and teaching staff to support our growing medical research programme. Working in close partnership with the Norwich & Norfolk University Hospital, we plan to create a new, state-of-the-art medical research building to accommodate the new scientists and deliver their groundbreaking work
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