{"id":8383,"date":"2020-02-01T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T07:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2023-10-26T10:14:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:14:30","slug":"interferon-pilot-plant-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/interferon-pilot-plant-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Interferon Pilot Plant: 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2019\/11\/Pilot-Plant-1980-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBnO8-21j\">February 2019<\/a> blog, about Imperial Biotechnology Ltd, I included a Thames Television interview with Dr Trevor Langley. Through the current digitisation of the STOIC archives I now have something home-grown about the pilot plant. In May 1980 Tracy Poole (now Dudley) reported on the current work being undertaken and also interviewed Prof <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_S._Hartley\">Brian Hartley<\/a> (16 April 1926 \u2013 3 May 2021), a former Head of Department in Biochemistry.\u00a0 He was then overseeing the entire project.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot plant was ultimately closed and dismantled in 1994 and was finally refurbished as the Flowers Building.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KELSdHYoujg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw February 2020<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 1980 Tracey Poole reported on the current work being undertaken into Interferon and also interviewed Prof Brian Hartley about the college pilot plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3921,79,18461,80,81,390],"tags":[5022,161,81,212],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-campus","category-college-history","category-people","category-research","category-technology","tag-biochemistry","tag-buildings","tag-research","tag-stoic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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