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Manchester scientists receive most funding

19/07/2006

The University of Manchester has received more in biological science grants than any other UK institution in 2005, new figures reveal.

Strengthening the university's reputation for being a leading centre for biological research, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) figures show that Manchester received grants worth £12.38 million.

This sum is over £1 million more than Cambridge University, the second highest funded institution, and nearly four million more than Glasgow University, who received the third highest amount.

The university's associate dean for research in the Faculty of Life Sciences, Martin Humphries, said: "We particularly value the BBSRC because of its policy of focusing on a wide range of biological research at the level of the project grant.

"Its provision of such grant funding is how many of the 250 independent investigators within the Manchester life sciences community are able to sustain their pioneering work."

The university will use some of this grant to look into the relationship between the body and the brain.

Current work is underway at the institution to build a new computer, which aims to explain how complex images are encoded by the brain.


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