THE University of Sunderland is set to build a multi-million pound facility to help train the medical professionals of tomorrow using human tissue. Sunderland City Council has granted planning permission for a new ‘cadaveric centre’ at the university’s city campus and work is expected to start in around six weeks. When completed, the centre will be key to the newly-established School of Medicine, provide training for other students within the Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing and offer vital facilities and benefits to surgeons and surgical trainees in the region. The latest development comes after the university opened its first School of Medicine in September 2018.