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Press contacts for the NRP and its member organisations can be found below

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• The Norwich Research Park (NRP) is a powerful co-operative including the University of East Anglia, John Innes Centre, the Institute of Food Research, the Sainsbury Laboratory and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust. Located 3 miles from the city centre, the NRP is home to 9000 staff and over 1000 postgraduate research science students.
  
• The combined annual research budgets of the NRP members is around £75 millon (excepting the hospital) and the total budget for all NRP members is £470 million.
  
• The NRP is located in 160 ha of parkland in a picturesque setting on the western edge of the city of Norwich about 3 miles from the centre. It is within easy distance of Norwich International airport (with regular flights to Amsterdam, Paris, Edinburgh, Manchester amongst others) and the railway station. There are twice hourly trains to Cambridge and the rail journey to London takes less than 2 hours. By road, the NRP is 1 hour from Cambridge, 2 hours from London and 3 hours from Birmingham.

• Grant aided by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
  
• A staff of 290, including 190 researchers, complemented by many visiting scientists and postgraduate students from all parts of the world.
  
• multidisciplinary science on issues relevant to food safety, diet and health, and food materials.
  
• An output of about 500 scientific papers, posters and presentations by staff each year.
  
• An annual income of approximately £14 million.
  
• Collaborative projects with UK, European and overseas research and industrial partners and one-to-one confidential projects with a range of food companies. 
• A fully-owned subsidiary, IFR Enterprises, which undertakes research involving industrial support, commercialises IFR innovations and facilitates the industry-facing Food and Health Network.
  

• Opened in November 2001 bringing together the former 231 year old Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and the former West Norwich Hospital.
  
• A 63 Acre site housing a 987-bed teaching hospital containing 27 operating theatres and 27 well equipped wards and extensive facilities for day surgery and clinical research.
  
• The hospital was built under the  private finance initiative (PFI - NNUH), whereby a private sector consortium builds and maintains the building and leases it back to the NHS.  
  
• Every year the staff of 5,500 treat more than 600,000 people from Norfolk, neighbouring counties and further afield.
  
• Most funding (85 per cent) comes from primary care trusts (PCTs) that are funded by the Department of Health.
  
• N&NUH is a teaching hospital playing an important role in the teaching and training of a very wide range of health professionals, in partnership with the University of East Anglia and City College Norwich.

• Consists of 20,000 square feet of state-of-the-art bioscience laboratory and office facilities with associated business and science support services. 
• Provides scientist-entrepreneurs with the opportunity to develop their ideas and technologies into successful bioscience businesses.
  
• Expert support and advice is available from a network of business, scientific, financial and legal advisors. 
• Proposals are invited from scientists - from the NRP and elsewhere - who wish to develop their innovative ideas or novel technologies within the unique environment of the NRP.
  
• Located at the John Innes Centre on the Norwich Research Park, a world renowned centre of research excellence in plants, food, microbes, diet and health, environment and IT.
  

• Europe's premier independent research centre for the study of plant science and microbiology.
  
• Mission to carry out fundamental and strategic research, to train scientists and to make findings available to society.
  
• The scientific research at the Centre makes use of a wide range of disciplines in the biological and chemical sciences, including cell biology, biochemistry, chemistry, genetics and molecular biology.
  
• JIC is funded by over 40 different organisations. The largest single contribution, nearly 60% of income, comes from the UK government via the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
  
• The JIC leases the extensive land and buildings it uses from the John Innes Foundation, an independent charity  formed in 1910 following a bequest from Mr John Innes. They also occupy a small farm in Colney and the 200 acre Church Farm, in Bawburgh (a nearby village).
  
• An annual turnover of £24 million, 50% coming from UK Government through the BBSRC, and the rest from UK competitive grant funding, the EU, charities and industry.
  
• The Centre hosts three other separate organisations: The Sainsbury Laboratory, Plant Bioscience Limited and The Norwich BioIncubator.
  
• Home to 600+ staff including 300 scientists, 100 PhD students plus numerous specialist support staff and UK and international visitors.

 

UEA has around 2500 employees with 470 academic staff and 500 research and technical staff. There are over 13,000 students - approx. 9,900 undergraduates and 3,300 postgraduates. A choice of over 300 courses offered through 27 Schools of Study.

• An annual turnover of £123.3m. The university puts around £150 million a year into the local economy.
  
• Located two miles outside Norwich city centre, UEA owns 129.5 hectares of land. The campus includes its own "Norfolk Broad" or lake resulting from the extraction of gravel in the 1970s.
  
• Home to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts housing the Sainsbury Collection, combining modern Western works with fine and applied arts from across the globe.
   
• UEA has a multi-million pound Sportspark, including a 50m competition swimming pool, a climbing wall, fitness centre and a human performance laboratory.
  
• In partnership with the University of Essex, and with the support of Suffolk County Council, the East of England Development Agency, Ipswich Borough Council, Suffolk College, and the Learning and Skills Council, UEA has secured £15 million funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England with the aim of creating a new campus in the Waterfront area of Ipswich.
  
• UEA is ranked amongst the top three for student satisfaction according to the first National Student Survey and in the top 20 in the UK by the Sunday Times.

• Located on the John Innes Centre site.
  
• Accommodates approximately 60 scientists.
  
• Main goal is to make fundamental discoveries about plants and how they interact with microbes and viruses.
  
• Funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation who have agreed a grant of £0.5M for expansion and refurbishment of the Laboratory building in addition to the current level of funding which supports 6 research groups.
  
• Gatsby had previously agreed to fund the Laboratory until at least 2014.