Lilly Research Centre

Last updated

Lilly Research Centre
Erl Wood Manor [1]
Surrey UK location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location within Surrey
Alternative namesErl Wood, Eli Lilly Research & Development, Eli Lilly Campus
General information
TypeMedical Research Centre
Address Surrey, England, GU20 6PH
Coordinates 51°22′35″N0°40′39″W / 51.3764°N 0.6776°W / 51.3764; -0.6776
Elevation70 m (230 ft)
Current tenants600 employees
CompletedAugust 1967 [2]
Inaugurated1967
Cost£1.5m
ClientLilly Industries
Owner Eli Lilly Corporation
Dimensions
Other dimensions47 acres
Technical details
Floor count2
Floor area23,154 sq ft
Design and construction
Main contractorMcAlpine

The Lilly Research Centre is a medical research centre in Surrey. It is the European headquarters of Eli Lilly and Company.

Contents

Construction

Lilly received permission for the site in 1959. [3] The site was built by McAlpine. [4] The site was to open by August 1967, being 47 acres

From 1967 the catering was provided by the Bateman Catering Organisation [5]

History

The former research site of Lilly was at Bromborough. [6]

In 1968, when the centre opened, Eli Lilly was spending £20m on research in the UK. The average research cost of a new molecular entity is currently over £1bn. In 2003, a £40m investment transformed the site into a Centre of Excellence in Neuroscience Research.

Director of Research at the centre was Bill Dawson, a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

In October 2019, Eli Lilly announced the closure of their Erl Wood research centre by the end of 2020 with some staff moving to other Eli Lilly locations in the local area and neuroscience research moving to the USA. [7] A year later, in October 2020, UCB announced they had acquired the site from Lilly and would complete a refurbishment of the site. [8]

Visits

Directors

Operation

From 1967 the catering was provided by the Bateman Catering Organisation. [12]

Research

The site had laboratory animals. A new £1.3m centre for Elanco Products opened in November 1978, with 12,500 sq ft. [13] The site also researched plant science, where chemists developed pesticide formulation.

The pain killer benoxaprofen (known as Opren) was developed at the site in 1971, and launched on Tuesday 14 October 1980, and had been in hospitals since May 1980. It had to be rapidly withdrawn on 4 August 1982, as there were numerous side-effects, with maybe up to 61 deaths in the UK. It was banned by the government on 6 September 1982. [14] [15] [16]

Structure

It is accessed via the A30 and B3020, and the A322 via junction 3 of the M3. The site has a 200-seat restaurant. The EMC building opened in 2000. The site is set in woodland.

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aldershot</span> Town in Hampshire, England

Aldershot is a town in the Rushmoor district, Hampshire, England. It lies on heathland in the extreme north-east corner of the county, 31 mi (50 km) south-west of London. The town has a population of 37,131, while the Aldershot Urban Area – a loose conurbation, which also includes other towns such as Camberley and Farnborough– has a population of 243,344; it is the thirtieth-largest urban area in the UK.

<i>BBC East Midlands Today</i> BBC television news programme for the East Midlands

BBC East Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news programme for the East Midlands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leicester Forest East services</span> Services on the M1 motorway, UK

Leicester Forest East services is a motorway service station situated between junctions 21 and 21A of the M1 motorway, near Leicester, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Windlesham Moor</span> Country house in Surrey, England

Windlesham Moor is a country house and, for a time in the 20th century a royal residence, at Windlesham in the English county of Surrey. In its capacity as a royal residence, it was, for nearly two years in the late 1940s, the home of Princess Elizabeth and her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">A180 road (England)</span> Road in northern England

The A180 is a primary route in northern England, that runs from the M180 motorway to Cleethorpes. The road is a continuation of the M180, but built to lower specifications: it is mainly dual two-lane without hard shoulders. The road is dual carriageway for 16.87 miles (27.15 km) from the M180 to Grimsby, and is a single carriageway road for 2 miles (3.2 km) between Grimsby and Cleethorpes beach.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trowell services</span>

Trowell services is a motorway service station off the M1 motorway in Trowell, Nottinghamshire, England, situated north of Junction 25. Opened in 1967 by Mecca Leisure, it is currently owned by Moto. The services are situated near Nottingham.

Top of the Form was a BBC radio and television quiz show for teams from secondary schools in the United Kingdom which ran for 38 years, from 1948 to 1986.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grantham North services</span> Service area operated by Moto located on the A1 at Gonerby Moor Roundabout

Grantham North Services is a service area operated by Moto located on the A1 at Gonerby Moor Roundabout, four miles north of Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. The service station has a main car park and coach/lorry park, off which is a BP petrol station.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pilgrim Hospital</span> Hospital in Lincolnshire, England

Pilgrim Hospital is a hospital in the east of Lincolnshire on the A16, north of the town of Boston near the mini-roundabout with the A52. It is situated virtually on the Greenwich Meridian and adjacent to Boston High School. The fenland area of Lincolnshire is covered by this hospital, being the county's second largest hospital after Lincoln County Hospital. It is managed by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">BioCity Nottingham</span>

BioCity Nottingham is a bioscience science park in central Nottingham in the United Kingdom. It is the UK's largest bioscience innovation and incubation centre, now run by Pioneer Group, a specialist life sciences real estate and venture building company.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dunton Technical Centre</span> UK automotive R&D facility

The Dunton Campus is a major automotive research and development facility located in Dunton Wayletts, Laindon, England, which is owned and operated by Ford. Ford Dunton houses the main design team of Ford of Europe alongside its Merkenich Technical Centre in Cologne, Germany. With the closure of Ford's Warley site in September 2019, the staff from the UK division of Ford Credit and Ford's UK Sales and Marketing departments have moved to the Dunton site. As of November 2019, Dunton had around 4,000 staff working at the site.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Unilever Research & Development Port Sunlight Laboratory</span> Unilever research and development facility in England

The Unilever Research & Development Port Sunlight Laboratory is the multinational consumer goods company Unilever's main research and development facility in the United Kingdom. It is located in Bebington, Merseyside.

The Sterling-Winthrop Research Centre was a research centre in Alnwick.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Napp Research Centre</span> Medical research institute in Cambridge, UK

The Napp Research Centre is a large medical research institute in the north of Cambridge, and innovative-looking and award-winning architecture; it is a Cambridge landmark.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aldershot Buddhist Centre</span>

Aldershot Buddhist Centre is a Buddhist temple and community centre catering for the Buddhists of Aldershot in Hampshire and surrounding area. Opened in 2015, it describes itself as the United Kingdom's first Buddhist community centre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">New Frontiers Science Park</span> Science park, former research centre in Harlow, Essex

The New Frontiers Science Park is a science park in Essex, on a redeveloped research site of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

The history of air traffic control in the United Kingdom began in the late 1950s, and early 1960s, when an integrated and coordinated system began, once radar had become sufficiently advanced to allow this.

The Institute of Naval Medicine is the main research centre and training facility of the Royal Navy Medical Service. The Institute was established in Alverstoke, Gosport, in 1969.

The Shell Technology Centre was a chemical and oil products research institute in northern Cheshire, near Stanlow, owned by Anglo-Dutch Shell.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chesterford Park Research Station</span> Research centre in Little Chesterford, Essex

Chesterford Park Research Station was a former crop protection research centre in Essex, and is now a science park with biotechnology companies.

References

  1. ↑ New Scientist March 1986
  2. ↑ "Lilly Research Centre - Erl Wood" (PDF) (Press release). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 November 2018.
  3. ↑ Aldershot News Friday 24 June 1983, page 14
  4. ↑ Aldershot News Friday 16 December 1966, page 12
  5. ↑ Aldershot News Friday 8 September 1967, page 16
  6. ↑ Surrey Advertiser Saturday 12 November 1966, page 15
  7. ↑ Evans, Ryan (15 October 2019). "Eli Lilly announces job cuts and closure of UK research centre". Basingstoke Gazette. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  8. ↑ May, Brandon (16 October 2020). "UCB Snags Eli Lilly U.K. Research Site, Plans to Invest £1 Billion Over Five Years for R&D". BioSpace. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  9. ↑ Panorama 10 January 1983
  10. ↑ Panorama 17 January 1983
  11. ↑ Times, 12 June 2003, page 35
  12. ↑ Aldershot News Friday 8 September 1967, page 16
  13. ↑ Aldershot News Tuesday 14 November 1978, page 2
  14. ↑ Aberdeen Evening Express Tuesday 14 October 1980, page 3
  15. ↑ Aldershot News Tuesday 25 January 1983, page 3
  16. ↑ Aldershot News Friday 31 December 1982, page 2


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.