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techUK

UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

Life Sciences & Health InnovationEventverified

NHS AI Industry Engagement Forum: non-clinical AI use cases

Listed by techUK as an upcoming AI Industry Briefing.

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UKIZ Funding & Regulation

UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

Life Sciences & Health InnovationGovernment, funding and regulationUKIZ sourced

First scientists move in to London’s new world-leading research lab

New £650 million laboratory welcomes the first researchers to begin their collaboration and help strengthen the UK’s world-leading reputation in science.

Source: Medical Research Council

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Life Sciences & Health Innovation

Discovery is the easy part.

Turn British discovery and NHS-scale clinical evidence into British medicines, devices and health companies

The answer

Turn British discovery and NHS-scale clinical evidence into British medicines, devices and health companies.

  • Health innovation is one of the few sectors where Britain holds genuine global research leadership.
  • The NHS is a clinical evidence asset few countries can match, if it can be used without compromising patients or trust.
  • Value currently leaves the country at the licensing stage rather than the discovery stage.

Why BritainTwo of the world's strongest biomedical research corridors.Charitable and public research funding at unusual scale.Established pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device presence.Clinical data and trial infrastructure at national scale.

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The Life Sciences & Health Innovation campus

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Illustrative aerial view of the UKIZ Life Sciences and Health Innovation digital campus, showing biomedical laboratories, clinical and hospital buildings and a public garden in a university city.Illustrative UKIZ campus. Not a proposed site.

What Britain already has

Research base

  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Oxford
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Manchester

Infrastructure recorded

  • Wet and dry laboratory space
  • Biologics and device manufacturing at scale
  • Clinical trial and adoption pathways
  • Secure clinical data environments

What Britain is genuinely good at

  • Cambridge Biomedical Campus
  • Oxford's clinical research base
  • The Francis Crick Institute
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute
  • NHS clinical trial networks

What we’re less certain about

  • Biologics and specialist manufacturing capacity at commercial scale
  • Scale capital between Series B and public markets
  • NHS procurement and adoption timelines

These are open questions UKIZ holds against this campus, not weaknesses we have proven.

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What UKIZ holds on UK life sciences and health innovation

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Life Sciences & Health Innovation in Britain, as it stands today.

Britain discovers at world level and commercialises below it. The mission is the route from discovery to manufactured product, clinical adoption, retained ownership and export.

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