Business Case / Bioscience
Bioscience
Bioscience across York and North Yorkshire is a sector of great success and future potential and has developed a reputation as one of the main Bioscience clusters in the world.
The cluster is underpinned by the University of York, which has world-class Departments of Biology, Chemistry and Computer Science and formal links to the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield through the "White Rose" University Consortium.
There is also an excellent range of Further Education provision supplied through York College and Askham Bryan College. This ensures a good supply of people with practical science skills, including laboratory technicians, agronomists and agricultural scientists.
The successes and opportunities of three Technology Business Clusters in York (Bioscience, Creative Industries and IT and Digital) has resulted in the city obtaining official status as one of six designated Science Cities across the UK.
Bioscience activity in York has a programme of leading-edge science and a track record of commercial exploitation. The Bioscience York cluster provides a way of strengthening supply chains and ensuring skills and best practice can be shared across the region. Particular strengths are found in four main areas driven by the world-class facilities available to support development. There are a range of companies working to support these areas:
| Bioscience area | Facilities |
|---|---|
| Drug Development | University of York's Technology Facility The world's first biomedical accelerator mass spectrometer, at Xceleron, York, for safer, speedier clinical trials A range of SME's working in contract research, analysis and specialist diagnostics can be found within the Bioscience York cluster, providing services to support pharmaceutical development |
| Plant Biotechnology | Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) Interactive European Network for Industrial Crops and their Applications (IENICA) hosted by the Central Science Laboratory National Non-foods Crop Centre Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence The Bioscience York cluster provides a forum for plant biotechnologists, farmers and agronomists to network and collaborate on projects |
| Health Services | Centre for Health Economics (CHE) Hull York Medical School The Bioscience York cluster includes world leading medical devices specialists Smith & Nephew, as well as a range of innovative SME' s working in medical devices and diagnostics |
| Food Sciences | $200million facility for the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) Food Chain Centre of Industrial Collaboration |
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