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Research team moves from Nottingham university to the School of Pharmacy 

Professor David Thurston’s entire cancer research team is to leave Nottingham as a result of the university’s decision to accept money from a tobacco company to pay for business school developments.

Professor Thurston, a pharmacist who leads a 15-strong team developing new anti-tumour agents, announced his intention to leave the university some time ago, but the news that his team is leaving with him has been described as humiliating by Professor Malcolm Stevens, Nottingham’s head of cancer research, who is also a pharmacist. . .

The move has been welcomed by the School of Pharmacy’s head of medicinal chemistry, Professor Laurence Patterson. He says that Professor Thurston’s team will add critical mass to an already vibrant cancer research team, which has a product in phase I clinical trials.

The matter will not end there, so far as Nottingham university is concerned. Another, as yet unnamed principal researcher has already accepted a job at another university as a result of the BAT grant and his team is likely to go too.

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