A new £20m research hub is being established in Cambridge to help develop new medicines using artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced laboratory models.
The site will be based at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Funded by the Medical Research Council, the hub will work with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH).
Researchers will use scientific models based on human tissues and diseases to improve the translation of lab-based research into new medicines. CUH said the hub would create "more accurate ways to study, predict and develop treatments for human diseases before they are trialled in patients".
It would also further "efforts to reduce dependence on research involving animals".