| Description | LILLY/F/194-195 are the contents of Malcolm Lilly's folder labelled 'Institute Department of Trade and Industry Companies Grand Met'. Mainly contains correspondence between Lilly on behalf of the Institute and Grand Metropolitan Biotechnology Ltd. Found in Malcolm Lilly's box files labelled 'Extended use of Biocatalysts Research Grant'.
This was a joint programme with the Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Companies: Shell Research Ltd, Unilever Research, May and Baker Ltd, Glaxo Group Research Ltd, Grand Metropolitan Biotechnology, Perkin Elmer and Imperial Chemical Industries. The project, of five years duration, was started in September 1983. The programme set out to begin to answer the question as to why microorganisms only synthesise useful products for a limited time and to ascertain whether from an understanding of the reasons for this their useful lives as catalysts can be extended.
The Institute for Biotechnology Studies was a charitable organisation established in 1983 by the Polytechnic of Central London, University College London and the University of Kent at Canterbury. The aims of the Institute were to promote multidisciplinary developments in biotechnology research and teaching. The management group comprised A.T. Bull University of Kent, G. Holt, Polytechnic of Central London and Lilly, University College London. The name of the Institute was changed to the International Institute of Biotechnology in 1989. |