Quadram Institute honoured to announce The Princess Royal as Patron

On the 22nd May, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal was announced as Patron of the Quadram Institute on the Norwich Research Park.

The announcement of The Princess Royal’s patronage of the Quadram Institute follows a recent visit to the institute to meet scientists, PhD students, patients, clinical trial volunteers and NHS staff in December 2024.

The Quadram Institute hosts the NIHR Norfolk Clinical Research Facility (CRF), a facility to undertake work to further enhance our medical knowledge and improve patient care by driving forward innovation in experimental medicine and translational research. The CRF has 6 clinic rooms, a multi-function room, 2 en-suite rooms, a laboratory and kitchen facilities.

Quadram Institute director and chief executive officer, Professor Daniel Figeys said, “Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal has been an inspiring and active champion for science over many years, and we are deeply honoured that The Princess Royal will support our institute with her Patronage.”

The Quadram Institute is a partnership between Quadram Institute Bioscience, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

The institute brings together researchers, academics and NHS clinicians. During her visit in 2024, Her Royal Highness spoke to over sixty members of its staff and students who are working to address challenges in human health, food and disease.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk, The Lady Dannatt MBE, said: “The Patronage of HRH The Princess Royal is brilliant for the Quadram Institute and brilliant for our research park, confirming as it does Norwich and Norfolk’s growing reputation for scientific innovation and excellence on the world stage.”

The institute’s mission is to deliver healthier lives through innovation in gut health, microbiology and food and its vision is to understand how food and microbes interact to promote health and prevent disease.  Interconnected research themes deliver a pipeline of research in microbes, food, nutrition and health; the gut and the microbiome; and food innovation.

For more information, please head to the Quadram Institute’s website.