At any given time during the Olympics, people from all over the world are passing through London’s King’s Cross St Pancras station, all heading for the Javelin train to take them to the Olympic Park in Stratford in just seven minutes.
Most of them won’t realise that just round the corner from King’s Cross, we’re helping to create a research institute of Olympian standing – the Francis Crick Institute.
London has been preparing for the Olympics for seven years – we’ve seen regeneration of east London, upgrades on the tube, and anticipation build among Londoners and the rest of the world.
Similarly, The Francis Crick Institute will be seven years in the making when it opens in 2015, and we can’t wait.