Laing O’Rourke lined up for huge Oxford cancer research campus bankrolled by US tech billionaire

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Foster & Partners scheme being funded by world’s seventh richest man

Laing O’Rourke has been lined up to build a huge cancer research facility in Oxford designed by Foster & Partners and bankrolled by American billionaire Lawrence J.Ellison, the world’s seventh richest person.

Proposals for a UK branch of the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine (EITM), lodged with the city council in December, consist of a complex of buildings spread across two sites and linked by a 250m-long elevated timber walkway.

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