# Queen’s University Belfast receives its largest ever philanthropic gift

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/11/06/queen039s-university-belfast-receives-its-largest-ever-philanthropic-gift/
- Published: 2012-11-06T12:01:37+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Queen's University Belfast (QUB) has been awarded a grant of £15 million by Atlantic
Philanthropies. This is the largest gift the university has ever received.

The grant will be used to help establish a "world-leading Centre for Experimental
Medicine" in Northern Ireland. This will specialise in scientific research, with
the aim of finding cures for eye disease, diabetes and genetic illnesses. It is 
due to open in 2016.

The Atlantic Philanthropies gift also helps unlock £17 million from the UK Research
Partnership Infrastructure Fund. The other funders who have contributed to the project
are the Wellcome Trust, the Wolfson Foundation, the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust
and the Insight Trust for the Visually Impaired.

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The largest grant made to QUB before this was $15.5 million, also from Atlantic 
Philanthropies, for a learning resource centre. Up to 2011, Atlantic's gifts to 
QUB have exceeded $65 million.

Recently QUB launched a [£140 million fundraising campaign](https://fundraising.co.uk/queen039s-belfast-launches-140-million-campaign).

[www.qub.ac.uk](http://www.qub.ac.uk)

 

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