Enabling discovery, development,
validation and implementation of personalised medicine product development.
Innovation
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Discovery
Initiate the path to novel precision diagnostics and drugs.
Using the unique combination of data, expertise and analytic capabilities, discover new biomarkers, diagnostics and drugs:
- Access phenotype-rich datasets in a federated biobank of n=6000 patient samples, with integrated electronic care record (ECR) and omics data (~0.5 million data points); nested prospective studies.
- Untangle complex biological relationships with Personalised Medicine’s world-class data analytics capability
- Discover novel targets for biomarkers and drugs with disease-specific research expertise
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Development
Accelerate and de-risk product development.
With Personalised Medicine, companies can accelerate and de-risk R&D for novel biomarkers, diagnostics and therapies:
- Speed up translation from bench to bedside with co-located infrastructure and expertise
- Enable preclinical and early clinical validation of a broad range of biomarkers with specialised infrastructure for sampling, storage and analysis
- Fast-track clinical trial recruitment with access to hospital and community care networks
- Access one-stop CRO and expert consultancy services across design, ethics, approvals, recruitment, monitoring and regulation
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Implement
Use the Personalised Medicine Centre as a launchpad for implementation.
Begin implementation of new products into care pathways:
- Speed up implementation of novel diagnostics using hybrid laboratory structures
- Generate real world evidence from broad populations with our Community Care Organisation
- Validate models and algorithms with large datasets
- Undertake population health studies
- Support skills development in-line with emerging industry needs
- Commercialise with novel company creation
- Access de-risked licensing, collaboration and venture opportunities
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Our Innovation Partners
Our partners come from a diverse range of industries.
What We Offer
The Personalised Medicine Centre’s multiple offerings can be summarized within the scopes of collaboration, de-risking, and skill base development.
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Collaborate
- Access to samples and datasets.
- Clinical trial recruitment.
- Well-resourced CRO trial services and monitoring.
- Well-equipped genomic and proteomic lab.
- Expert lab and data analytics services and collaboration.
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De-Risk
- Preclinical validation studies.
- Access to funding.
- Preferential access to city deal ecosystem and network.
- Rent office or lab space.
- De-risked licencing opportunities and commercial support programs.
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Skills
- Skilled graduates.
- Short courses and bespoke training.
Professional Development
Our professional development short courses include:
- Coding skills for biologists
- Machine learning for non-programmers