£20 million for NMR upgrade at eight UK universities

Eight universities will receive a total of £20 million from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to upgrade their nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) facilities. Two 1GHz systems – the most powerful spectrometers on the market – will be installed at Birmingham and Warwick. The funding comes more than one year after a report called for urgent investment to update NMR infrastructure in the UK.