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David Wield, professor of innovation and development at the Open 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, will next autumn become director of the life sciences research group Innogen, which has secured its future with a five-year, ?5 million grant from the Economic and Social Research Council.

Professor Wield, Innogen's co-director, will leave Milton Keynes for Edinburgh Univer-sity to take over from founding director Joyce Tait, who stays on as scientific adviser.