The largest ever individual donation to the
Today, the University announces the creation of the
The Institute will be created following a
The announcement is the latest in a series of projects, including last year's opening of a
The new
John said: 'Fifty years on from graduating in Pharmacy at Sunderland and having developed a career in the pharmaceutical industry, I was pleased to reconnect with the University a couple of years ago.
'I was immediately impressed by the developments that had been achieved in that intervening half-century and was keen to assist the University continue its development, particularly in the health arena.
'I am therefore delighted to facilitate the University's new
The Institute will be housed in the University's
Sir David Bell KCB DL, the University's Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive said: 'I am enormously grateful to John and
The Institute will bring together expertise in clinical, laboratory and data science to address issues of local, national and international importance.
After graduating from Sunderland Polytechnic in 1970, John went on to build a successful career in the pharmaceutical field. He founded the prescription medicines and consumer healthcare company,
Over the next 20 years, the company expanded, and John turned
The company, which commenced with two full-time employees in the
In 2019 John, who was born in
The new Institute will focus on areas including the discovery of new medicines for the treatment of rare inherited metabolic diseases, developing targeted delivery methods and technologies to improve pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, as well as the development and application of machine learning tools for early disease detection.
Key to the development of the institute concept has been recent success in obtaining
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