{"id":3001,"date":"2016-01-28T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2016-01-28T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:05:24","slug":"imperial-alumnus-and-donor-michael-uren-knighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2016\/01\/28\/imperial-alumnus-and-donor-michael-uren-knighted\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial alumnus and donor Michael Uren knighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3004\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2016\/01\/uren-2-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Michael Uren\" \/>The Department of Surgery and Cancer is delighted that Michael Uren has been knighted in the Queens New Year\u2019s honours list 2016.\u00a0 Michael received the honour in recognition of his philanthropic activities. Over the last 8 years, The Michael Uren Foundation has given an astonishing \u00a3100m to good causes, across a wide range of topics, many of them unheralded.\u00a0\u00a0 His Foundation has been a staunch supporter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/msk-lab\">MSk lab <\/a>for almost a decade, but recently changed the course of Imperial by\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/newsandeventspggrp\/imperialcollege\/newssummary\/news_26-5-2014-23-8-58\" target=\"_blank\">pledging \u00a340m to support the creation of the Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Hub<\/a> at White City Campus. This 12 story building will allow Imperial to grow the next generation of engineers, scientists and medics in a purpose built environment where the lower floors house clinical intervention space, allowing devices to be designed, developed and trialed on site.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael is a familiar face to many in the Department, and particularly in the MSk lab, having visited on several occasions to see the work his generous donations have supported.\u00a0 The Foundation\u2019s gifts have played a vital role in helping us develop new areas of work, purchase cutting-edge equipment and build and sustain a talented, cross-disciplinary team of researchers. The flexibility afforded by these gifts has also been exceptionally important in allowing us to direct philanthropic resources into priority areas where corporate and research funding is not currently available. We look forward to welcoming Sir Michael on his next visit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Ryan<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Research Manager<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>MSk Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Surgery and Cancer is delighted that Michael Uren has been knighted in the Queens New Year\u2019s honours list 2016.\u00a0 Michael received the honour in recognition of his philanthropic activities. Over the last 8 years, The Michael Uren Foundation has given an astonishing \u00a3100m to good causes, across a wide range of topics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}