Interdisciplinary research links
The network has excellent links with other research groups and centres at the University and with our wider healthcare partners, allowing for truly interdisciplinary and translational research.
Platform sciences and technologies research domain
We work closely with the Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health.
New technologies play a central role in cutting-edge biomedical research and the domain provides a strategy for integration and development of central technologies that are important for both discovery and clinical sciences.
Read more about the Faculty’s eight research domains.
Related research centres
- National Graphene Institute (NGI)
The national centre for graphene research in the UK is focused on collaboration between the University and its partners to develop graphene applications of the future.
- The Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (Royce Institute)
This new institute aims to be world-leading centre for advanced materials research and commercialisation.
- Health eResearch Centre (HeRC)
A digital health network providing data-intensive research and education across northern England and beyond.
- Biomarkers Manchester
The Stoller Biomarker Discovery Centre (SBDC) and the Manchester Molecular Pathology Innovation Centre (MMPathIC), co-located in the heart of the University’s clinical campus, form a hub of activity aimed at furthering personalised and stratified medicine approaches.
- Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
One of only three CRUK major centres in the UK, the Manchester Institute aims to transform cancer treatments by developing new techniques in personalised medicine.
- NorthWest Centre for Advanced Drug Delivery (NoWCADD)
A renowned centre for the design, development and commercial exploitation of advanced drug delivery systems that ensure the optimal efficacy, safety and acceptability of new medicinal products.
- Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC)
A partnership between The University of Manchester and six NHS organisations.