LJMU named the £25m facility the Tom Reilly Building after the late Professor known as the ‘Father of the Science of Football.’ He was the UK’s first Professor of Sports Science. The state-of-the-art building, which houses the School of Sports and Exercise Sciences and the School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, offers some of the best facilities in the world. These include appetite laboratories, psychology testing labs, neuroscience labs, an indoor 70-metre running track, physiology suites, a DEXA scanner for measuring body fat, muscles and bone density, a driving simulator and a chronobiology lab. Steven Gerrard commented: “This is a fantastic facility which will further enhance Liverpool’s reputation as a city of sporting and academic excellence and I’m delighted to be here today to help the University celebrate its opening.”
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