BioCity Nottingham is a bioscience

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Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...

in the United Kingdom. It is the UK's largest bioscience innovation and incubation centre.

History

In 2002, laboratories and office space were donated to Nottingham Trent University by BASF. Biocity was founded in September 2003 by the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and the

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(which was based close to BioCity). Biocity's premises were developed from the building donated by BASF. Phase 1 was completed in March 2004, providing of space, then Phase 2 in March 2006 provided . When Phase 3 of the development was completed in October 2008, with , funding from emda also finished.

Background

Nottingham has a history of bioscience research done at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and by

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, Britain's largest retail pharmacy company, which is based in Dunkirk/ Beeston. Ibuprofen Blue Plaque, BioCity, Nottingham 01

Although Boots no longer engages in drug discovery, Ibuprofen (iso-butyl-propanoic-phenolic acid) was created by a team of Boots scientists including Stewart Adams and John Nicholson. In November 2013 work on ibuprofen was recognised by the erection of a Royal Society of Chemistry blue plaque on the site of the original laboratory where the painkiller was developed. The plaque reads: In March 2005 Nottingham was named as a Science City; the other 5 Science Cities were

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Structure

It is situated in former

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buildings, which previously were used by Boots as research laboratories. The site on Pennyfoot Street, between the A60 and A612, is for bioscience

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s. The University of Nottingham has the largest collaboration with companies at BioCity, with a few having links with NTU. There are three buildings – * Innovation Centre Building * Stewart Adams Building – named after Dr Stewart Adams OBE, who led the team at Boots (with John Nicholson) that discovered Ibuprofen, a

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/ref> * Laurus Building In January 2012 BioCity opened a second site, BioCity Scotland, resulting from the acquisition of a former MSD research facility near Glasgow.

References

External links

BioCity Nottingham

Science City Nottingham

UKSPA

CPMG Architects - Discovery Building at BioCity

News items

Laurus Building opens in October 2008

Video clips

Glen Crocker

Nottingham Science – Laurus Building
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