National Horizons Centre (Biosciences)
The National Horizons Centre (NHC) is a £22.3m centre of excellence for the bioscience industries. With research, partnerships and training at its core, the NHC brings together industry, academia, talent and world-class facilities to create real-world impact.
The centre is focussed around three core specialisms:
- Disease-specific research
- Biomanufacturing
- Digital analytics and machine learning
Through fundamental and applied research, the NHC prides itself on discovering diseases earlier, developing novel treatments and delivering life-saving medicines quicker, safer and more affordably.
It works with a range of public and private sector partners to accelerate innovation, including public health organisations, academic institutions, business start-ups, SMEs and multinationals.
Meet the team
Professor Vikki Rand
Research at Teesside
Research is key to finding new ways of changing things through interventions and bio-scientific methods. Without it, I wouldn't be here as research into retinoblastoma, an eye cancer, saved my life.
News
Prestigious science festival hears from Teesside academic
A Teesside University academic has provided an online lecture as part of a science festival organised by one of the world’s most prestigious science academies.
A complex crab invasion carries parasites to Argentina
Marine biologists and pathologists at IBIOMAR, (CCT CONICET CENPAT) Argentina, and Teesside University have discovered a new parasite that is infecting crab species off the coast of Argentina and which could have serious consequences for the vital fishing industry in the country.
Teesside University academic wins cancer research funding boost
Vital work into cancer research by a Teesside University academic has received a welcome boost in the form of almost £100,000 funding.
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How climate change is washing away precious evidence of our distant past
01/02/2022
Gillian Taylor
As well as threatening biodiversity, food systems and human health, climate change has another victim: ancient artefacts. At some UK sites of archaeological interest, unusually heavy rainfall is eroding layers of protective peat to damage the preserved relics that lie beneath.
