26 August 2010
Opening of the Gannochy Trust Clinical Research Suite at PRI
Opening - Tuesday August 31st, 5.30 pm.
Cornhill House, Perth Royal Infirmary
The Gannochy Trust Clinical Research Suite, a new facility on the Perth Royal Infirmary site funded by the University of Dundee’s £3million Diabetes Research Campaign, will be formally opened on Tuesday August 31st.
Radio and TV personality Fred MacAulay, who hails from Perth and is a former Rector of the University of Dundee, will open the Research Suite.
A key part of the Diabetes Research Campaign was to provide state-of-the-art clinical research facilities at Perth Royal Infirmary, enabling scientists and doctors to work together to undertake research from 'the cell to the community'.
The Gannochy Trust Clinical Research Suite, built at a cost of around £600,000, will fulfil this aim and enable patients in Perth and Kinross to more easily engage with researchers.
'We have always enjoyed wonderful support from the public across Tayside for the research we carry out, and it would not be possible to do much of that research without people getting as involved as they have,' said Professor Andrew Morris, Professor of Medicine at the University of Dundee.
'Thanks largely to the outstanding efforts of the members of the public, Tayside is now internationally recognised as having arguably the best information and knowledge of a diabetic population anywhere in the world - over 20,000 people across Tayside have taken part in diabetes research.
'With this facility we are reaching out to people in Perth and Kinross and making it easier for them to engage with the research we are doing, all of which is helping provide new knowledge about diabetes and shape future treatments and prevention.
'We are delighted at the backing the campaign received, and particular thanks for helping to establish the Perth centre must go to The Gannochy Trust who provided substantial funding for the project.'
The Diabetes Research Campaign has raised £3million. The money has been used to establish state-of-the-art outpatient clinical research across Tayside, recruit international researchers to Dundee and build on existing clinical and laboratory research capacity.
In addition to the £3 million campaign of public fundraising, there has also been significant investment from NHS Tayside, including £650,000 which was granted from the NHS Tayside Endowment Fund.
The University of Dundee has been hailed as a 'world-leading centre' for research into diabetes and is home to the Dundee Diabetes Research Centre, which hosts over 25 research teams engaged in diabetes research, ranging from the study of single molecules to complex clinical studies.
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