History
The Advanced Bioprocessing Centre at Brunel was set up as part of an initiative by the university to create a number inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary centres of excellence around specific research fields. The proposal for the formation of the ABC was first approved in 2005 and formally opened as a Centre with its own building on April 25th, 2006 by Dr Yoichiro Ito of NIH.
 Professor Sutherland (right), Director of the Advanced Bioprocessing Centre (ABC) with Dr Yoichiro Ito (left) who is unveiling the plaque commemorating the opening of the ABC on April 25th, 2006. |
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From left to right: Professor Lijuan Chen, Sichuan University, China, Dr Guy Harris, Merck, USA, Dr Ian Garrard, manager of the ABC, Professor Derek Fisher, Professor of Biochemistry at BIB, Professor Ian Sutherland, Director of the ABC, Professor Chris Jenks, Vice Chancellor of Brunel University, Dr Yoichiro Ito, NIH, USA, Professor Tatiana Maryutina, Vernadsky Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, Professor Alain Berthod, University of St Bernard, Lyon, France, Dr Petr Fedotov, Vernadsky Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, Dr Andrew Marston, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Professor Alain Foucault, University of Rheims, France. |
