History
The Wellcome Trust funded the establishment of a History of Medicine department at UCL in 1966, headed by Edwin Clarke. In 1993 the Centre started running a series of witness seminars to record medicine's key events. In February 2010 the centre was the first history unit in the world to be nominated for centre collaborative status with the World Health Organization. In April 2010 it was announced that the Wellcome Trust would not be renewing its grant for the Centre, and that it would therefore be closing within two years.
On 15 March 2011 it was announced that the Centre would be relaunched as the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine for the 2011/2012 academic year. It was announced that the Centre would move from the Wellcome Building on Euston Road to UCL's Medical Sciences Building on Gower Street and that its research focus would now be the history of neurosciences and related fields.
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