Mr Willetts described the centre as "the most significant development in British biomedical science regeneration".
Students are encouraged to major in other disciplines, like biomedical science, where tomorrow's great innovations might be born.
Does the school rank any of three disciplines identified as hotbeds for innovation and entrepreneurship--Engineering, Biological and Biomedical Science or Physical Science-- among its most popular majors?
Some biomedical scientists are saying that the science of genetic testing is too new to offer directly to consumers.
Dr Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts will use her For Women In Science Fellowship to support her research at the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University.
Rudolf Jaenisch. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Science to Rudolph Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for improving our understanding of epigenetic regulation of gene expression, the biological mechanisms that affect how genetic information is variably expressed.
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This erosion in our basic science investment has occurred at the very time that the biomedical revolution has opened huge opportunities to advance our knowledge of disease.
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Another advocate of reform is Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical charity, who led a recent official review of maths and science education.
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Initially it would take responsibility only for biomedical research, but ultimately its remit would be broadened to cover all branches of science.
The development, documented in the peer-reviewed journal Science, may stir anew nagging questions of ethics, law and public safety about artificial life that biomedical experts have been debating for more than a decade.
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