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Biocentre
York Biocentre is located on York Science Park and provides ready access to the University of York's world-class science base and a large number of University facilities and expertise. The centre is equipped with CAT2 and CAT3 laboratory facilities for spinout companies or bioscience firms wanting to move to York to explore these excellent research opportunities. In addition to the property-based facilities, the Biocentre offers access to office services as well as general business and management support, and the Biocentre / Innovation Centre environment creates opportunities for tenant interaction on a business and personal level.
Back to topCentre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP)
The Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) is a research centre based in the Department of Biology at the University of York. CNAP specialises in gene discovery for plant and microbial-based applications, using biology to benefit society and to provide a sustainable future. CNAP works with many external companies and agencies to deliver target-led research programmes with practical applications. In addition to its research activities, CNAP undertakes science to support policy projects such as hosting the DTI-funded Bioscience for Business Knowledge Transfer Network and co-ordinating EPOBIO, an EC-funded consortium established to realise the economic potential of sustainable resources. In February 2006, the University of York was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for its work in CNAP.
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CHE - Centre for Health Economics
The Centre for Health Economics (CHE) is a research unit of the University of York. The Centre's aim is to undertake high quality research that is capable of influencing health policy decisions. With a staff approaching 60 people, of whom two-thirds are researchers, the Centre is one of the largest health economics research units in the world.
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CSL - Central Science Laboratory
CSL is an Executive Agency of the UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It is the UK's foremost public sector laboratory working to protect environmental quality, support sustainable land use, and safeguard food safety. Its main role is to provide research, technical services and risk assessments in support of government objectives. CSL also works with the international food, speciality chemicals and land-based industries. Arising from the research programmes is a wide range of analytical, diagnostic and consultancy services.
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Hull York Medical School
HYMS is the landmark new medical school established by the Universities of Hull and York, in partnership with the NHS. Established in answer to a national need for more doctors, HYMS welcomed its first students in September 2003.
Back to topFood Chain Centre of Industrial Collaboration
The Food Chain CIC is a combination of world-class expertise at the Universities of Leeds and York and the Central Science Laboratory. The provision of a unique facility for food research enables the food industry to meet new technical challenges, seize new commercial possibilities in food production and create and sustain competitive advantages.
Back to topGreen Chemistry Centre of Excellence for Industry
Based at the University of York, this Centre of Excellence acts as a one-stop shop for companies to access world-class R&D in an efficient individually tailored manner. The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence for Industry can deliver competitive, tailor-made solutions, which will enable production that is more profitable, less wasteful, less damaging to the environment and more socially acceptable. The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence for Industry has a well-established reputation for collaborating with customers in a variety of national and international organisations, of varying size and across a range of industrial sectors. The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, in conjunction with the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, offers Europe's first Masters course in Green Chemistry.
www.york.ac.uk/inst/greenchemcic/index.htm
Back to topNational Non-Food Crops Centre
Located on York Science Park, the NNFCC is the UK's single independent authority on renewable materials and technology. There are many industrial uses for a range of renewable materials obtained from non-food crops including liquid biofuels, medicines, plastics and fibres. Because these materials are renewable, the products can have strong sustainability characteristics. The Centre aims to increase awareness, knowledge and understanding and to initiate and facilitate technology uptake whilst meeting the government and society's wider objectives for sustainable development.
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Technology Facility
The Technology Facility, Department of Biology, is an innovative and world-class centre for technology access, training and research. Many local bioscience companies regularly use the Technology Facility for a range of different purposes ranging from access to the key bioscience technology platforms to full collaborative research projects.
www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/tf/index.htm
Back to topThe BA Festival of Science
The British Association for the Advancement of Science (The BA) is a charity that exists to advance the public understanding, accessibility and accountability of the sciences and engineering. The BA Festival of Science is one of the UK's biggest science festivals. Annually it attracts around 400 of the best scientists and science communicators from home and abroad who reveal the latest developments in research to a general audience, at a week long event held at a different location each September. York had the proud honour of hosting the BA Festival of Science in September 2007.
Back to topThe Northern Way
The Northern Way is a unique collaboration between the three Northern Regional Development Agencies Yorkshire Forward, Northwest Regional Development Agency and One NorthEast. One of their projects is to support the establishment of a Centre of Excellence in Biocatalysis, Biotransformations and Biocatalytic Manufacture (CoEBio3). This is a collaboration between the universities of York, Manchester, Scottish colleges and the Centre for Process Innovation, to exploit the use of biotechnology to manufacture chemicals.
Back to topXceleron
A global leader in adding value to the drug pipelines of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies through the use of ultra-sensitive analytical techniques to accelerate drug development. Xceleron uses its expertise and cutting-edge AMS technology in early stage clinical development to give drug developers a greater chance of successfully bringing their compounds to market.
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