The University of Reading has opened a £17m building that will house new facilities for biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences.
The Hopkins Building was formally opened by Luton MP Kelvin Hopkins, son of the renowned British physicist, Harold Horace Hopkins.
Professor Hopkins invented rod-lens endoscopes that led to the development of modern keyhole surgery and held the Chair in Optics at the university from 1967 until 1984.
The University's new Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR) will be based in the Hopkins Building, alongside researchers in pharmacology. The multidisciplinary centre will bring together scientists from a range of research fields to work to understand the development of cardiovascular diseases, and the underlying obesity-related metabolic diseases from which they develop.
Professor Gordon Marshall, vice-chancellor of the University of Reading, said: "We are thrilled by the completion of this new building, which forms part of the University of Reading's major investment in state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities, to enhance the academic environment for our staff and students. It demonstrates our commitment to developing further our ability to undertake internationally important research, providing answers to society's challenges and improving lives across the globe.
"We are also delighted to honour Professor Hopkins, whose talent for theoretical maths and physics combined with an inventive genius led him to achieve significant life changing contributions to society himself."
Sheppard Robson was the project architect.