Our Facilities

With the £500m development of four brand new hospitals, and £400m invested to date in state-of-the-art university facilities, the research and innovation division is located on Europe's largest clinical academic campus.

Significant amounts of funding have been invested in developing our unique facilities. These include:

• NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre
• NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit
• Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
• Wellcome Trust Children's Clinical Research Facility
• A biobank for the collection, storage and use of human biomaterials
• A Centre for Advanced Discovery and Experimental Therapuetics (CADET) for the development of new drug treatments
• State-of-the-art labs with new technology platforms, including next generation sequencing and high throughput technologies
• ICON Clinical Pharmacology Unit recruiting healthy volunteers to take part in studies
• The Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, Europe's largest pregnancy research centre
• Nowgen: A Centre for Genetics in Healthcare, aiming to inform and improve the practice of genetic medicine
• National Genetics Reference Laboratory providing dedicated support to UK genetics testing centres
• The Willink Biochemical Genetics Unit, the main diagnostic laboratory for metabolic diseases in the North of England