Professor Richard James, Director of the Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, at the School of Molecular Medical Sciences- University of Nottingham has recently opened the first, of two new buildings for the Centre. To celebrate the opening, Wyllie O Hagan’s Transformations in Science and Art prints are being exhibited.

The Centre for Biomolecular Sciences is a new multi-disciplinary research building situated on University Park opposite the Queen's Medical Centre. It houses about 120 researchers drawn from several schools of the university including Pharmacy, Chemistry and Molecular Medical Sciences. Phase 2 of the building, will more than double its size, will open in 2006.

At this new Centre of Biomolecular Sciences, research interests in the building include cancer research, novel drug discovery, infection and immunity, principally the molecular details of how pathogenic bacteria cause disease in man and how we can develop novel antibiotics to prevent it. The techniques in use are medicinal chemistry, all aspects of gene cloning, protein chemistry, and structural biology.

Transformations in Science and Art celebrates and honours the life and work of scientists working in the field of cancer research. On the ground floor, there is a series of vivid Fine Art Prints in exhibition. Scientific research into the workings of DNA reveals invisible worlds. Here, the artists use of latest fluorescent technology inks and print reproduction methods make visible their world.

On the first and second floor of the centre are a further series of digital prints.
Mirroring the inventiveness of the scientists work, the artists recycle scientific material and imagery into new visual artworks. The intense vibrant world scientists observe in microscopic detail is reflected and communicated in this innovative series of art prints.

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