National Horizons Centre
Building
A UK centre of excellence, the National Horizons Centre drives innovation in bioscience and healthcare.
This £22.3 million facility features state-of-the-art laboratories, specialist training spaces, and industry collaboration hubs. With advanced bioanalytical, bioprocessing, and omics labs, alongside dedicated seminar and bioinformatics spaces, it provides cutting-edge resources to support research, training, and business partnerships in the life sciences sector.
Facilities available
Bioinformatics suite
Specialist lab
Equipped with high-performance workstations, this facility supports advanced computational analysis, enabling complex data research in biosciences.
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Bioprocessing lab
Specialist lab
Providing specialist facilities, this lab focuses on biomanufacturing techniques, supporting the development of biological products for industrial and therapeutic use.
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Omics lab
Specialist lab
Dedicated to biological research, this lab enables advanced studies in genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, supporting innovation in biosciences.
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Seminar room
Event and room hire
This modern seminar room offers a professional and flexible environment for hire, ideal for business presentations, workshops or academic collaborations.
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Waters BioAnalytical lab
Specialist lab
Part of the Waters Centre of Innovation Programme, this lab supports bioanalytical research, providing advanced facilities for scientific collaboration and discovery.
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Equipment available
Leica SP8 Confocal Microscope
Equipment
High-speed, high-resolution laser scanning confocal microscope.
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Leica DMi8 Fluorescence Microscope
Equipment
Inverted widefield microscope for fluorescence imaging.
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Renishaw inVia Qontor Raman Confocal Microscope
Equipment
Label-free technique for chemical composition analysis.
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Oxford Nanopore MinION
Equipment
A portable, real-time sequencing device providing long-read sequencing capabilities.
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Oxford Nanopore PromethION 2 Solo
Equipment
High-throughput sequencing for large-scale genomic projects.
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NanoString nCounter SPRINT Profiler
Equipment
Digital molecular barcoding for RNA and DNA analysis.
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Illumina MiSeq Sequencing System
Equipment
A short-read sequencer ideal for targeted-panel sequencing in cancer research.
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Agilent TapeStation 4200
Equipment
An automated electrophoresis system for the analysis of nucleic acids.
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Opentrons OT-2 Liquid Handling System
Equipment
Robotic pipetting for sample preparation and laboratory workflows.
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Qiagen QIAcube Connect
Equipment
Fully automated nucleic acid and protein purification.
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Beckman Coulter MoFlo Astrios EQ Flow Cytometer
Equipment
High-speed flow cytometer with cell sorting capabilities.
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Waters Xevo G2-XS
Equipment
UPLC system coupled to a QToF mass spectrometer.
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Waters Synapt G2-Si
Equipment
UPLC system with Ion Mobility Spectrometry.
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Waters Xevo TQ-S Micro
Equipment
UPLC system coupled to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer.
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Thermo Scientific ISQ 7000 GC-MS
Equipment
Single quadrupole mass spectrometer for gas chromatography.
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Waters Acquity UPLC System
Equipment
High-resolution UPLC system with fraction collector.
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Waters GC-FID 
Waters Cyclic IMS
Equipment
QToF cyclic Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometer.
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Waters and Agilent Xevo TQ GC-MS
Equipment
Triple Quadrupole GC-MS system.
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More information
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