Say the words Canary Wharf to a Londoner, and the first image that will probably come to mind is of glass towers filled with finance workers on big salaries. But the borough that encompasses Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets, has areas that are amongst the most deprived in the UK. With that in mind, the development of two life sciences clusters in close proximity could impact not just the organisations building the real estate, the London innovation economy and the UK's gross domestic product, but also the lives of the people living in their vicinity.
“What was great for us was to come into a part of London where there was this growing sense of momentum around life sciences,” Genomics England Chief Financial Officer Catherine Byers said at Bisnow’s UK Life Sciences Winter Forecast held at the 20 Water Street office and lab building in Canary… Read the full story here. |