# £40 million donation for Imperial College London - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/06/04/40m-donation-imperial-college-london/ - Published: 2014-06-04T11:20:54+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake Imperial College London has received a donation of £40 million from Michael Uren OBE and the Michael Uren Foundation. The gift is the largest ever received by Imperial. It is the largest gift ever made to a London university by an alumnus, and is also one of the largest made to any UK university. By comparison, according to the [2013 Ross Case survey report](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/05/19/university-fundraising-costs-fall-cash-donations-increase/), the total amount donated to all UK universities in 2013 was £660 million. The donation will fund the construction of the Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Hub, which will house research into new and affordable medical technology, helping people affected by a diverse range of medical conditions. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/)   [⌊Sir Keith O’Nions, President of Imperial College London, and Michael Uren OBE⌉⌊ Sir Keith O’Nions, President of Imperial College London, and Michael Uren OBE⌉[ (l-r) Sir Keith O’Nions, President of Imperial College London, and Michael Uren OBE   ## About Michael Uren OBE Uren graduated from Imperial in Mechanical Engineering in 1943. He founded and developed cement manufacturer Civil and Marine Ltd. He has already given multi-million support for Imperial, including the College’s MSk Lab. He is one of the UK’s most generous philanthropists in the fields of [medical research, education](https://blog.whitehat-seo.co.uk/life-science-marketing-an-effective-inbound-marketing-strategy), the armed forces and conservation of wildlife. He described it as “an honour” to help “this great university”, mentioning how it inspired him as a young engineering student in 1940 “when London was under attack every night”. He added: > “Medical teaching and research didn’t exist at Imperial in my day, but it has > evolved into an institution where the work between engineering and medicine is > today one of its outstanding strengths. Imperial has always applied academic excellence > for the greater good, and I am thrilled by the prospect of this Biomedical Engineering > Hub doing exactly that.” ## Imperial’s fundraising team Imperial has invested considerably in its fundraising capacity over the last two years. It has established a new fundraising division, and nearly doubled its development staff team. Angela Bowen, Deputy Director of Development, said: > “It has been a pleasure to meet Michael Uren. We have been touched by the warmth > of his memories of his days as a student at Imperial, and by his generosity in > making this gift, which will do so much to support life-changing research in biomedical > engineering at Imperial.” * **[Giving Magazine to connect social investors worldwide with charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/09/08/giving-magazine-connect-social-investors-worldwide-charities/)**( 8 September 2014) * **[Major donor residential course returns in 2015](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/09/15/major-donor-residential-course-returns-2015/)**( 15 September 2014) * **[Self-made billionaires more likely to become philanthropists than those who inherit wealth](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/10/06/self-made-billionaires-likely-become-philanthropists-inherit-wealth/)**( 6 October 2014) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)