Dr Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building formally opened providing new home for heart and lung innovation at Imperial

Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester has officially opened the Dr Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building, a six-storey home for world leading research within the National Heart and Lung Institute. 

The transformation was enabled by a gift of over £10 million by Dr Victor Phillip Dahdaleh and the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Charitable Foundation to create cutting-edge laboratory, teaching and collaborative facilities on the Hammersmith Hospital Life Sciences Campus. 

It has also created the Dr Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Graduate Centre for Respiratory and Cardiac Sciences at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI).

The official opening was marked by a visit from Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester, who unveiled a commemorative plaque to formally open the Dr Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building. 

Her Royal Highness, together with Dr Dahdaleh, Dr Hugh Brady President of Imperial College London, and a number of other guests, met researchers, toured new laboratories and learned more about NHLI’s mission to tackle the most pressing heart and lung health conditions. 

Dr Victor Phillip Dahdaleh said: ‘Today is another important step in my long-term relationship with Imperial, which now spans over 20 years. I hope that creating modern labs in this refurbished building and bringing most of the NHLI together here, will be game changing. 

‘I look forward to hearing about all the research and discoveries and the differences you make to the lives of people with heart and lung diseases. My thanks now, and in the future, for everything you do.’

A further gift of £2.5 million has also established the Dr Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Graduate Fellowships, bringing his recent support to a total of £12.5 million.

For further details of the opening and the new Dr Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building see here. 

Image credits: © Imperial College London / Fergus Burnett