Health Innovation Campus

Health Innovation Campus

What we do
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Health Innovation One

Lancaster University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andy Schofield, recently visited the Health Innovation Campus to announce the completion of the first phase of the project.

Click the link below to take a look inside our new Health Innovation One building - a physical hub which brings together academics and industry health and care experts to create an innovation eco-system.

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Business support

We’re working with small businesses, social enterprises, and charities in Lancashire to re-imagine health and wellbeing solutions for the future. Find out about ways we can help your organisation to innovate, develop and grow.

Business support
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Business space

The Health Innovation Campus offers office space/shared business space/meeting rooms and engagement opportunities to work on important health challenges with researchers and other partners on site. 

Business space

Director's blog

A monthly blog from the Director of the Health Innovation Campus, Dr Sherry Kothari

Director's blog
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pediatric ward

How lockdown may lead to “avoidable harm” for the health of under 16s

Decreases in hospital attendances and admissions amid fears of Covid-19 may result in avoidable harm for under 16s say researchers, who warn against the “unintended consequences of pandemic control measures”.
Using CPAP treatment, which is often used at home to help people with sleep problems, helps to keep the lungs open and makes breathing easier.

Doctors use existing treatment earlier to save the lives of Covid-19 patients

The lives of patients hospitalised with Covid-19 are being saved by doctors who are using an existing medical treatment at an earlier stage.  
Virus Hunter 6

MHRA registration approval for mobile rapid Covid-19 testing device

The launch of Virus Hunter 6 - Vidiia’s new diagnostic LAMP testing platform - is one step closer to being rolled out internationally, meaning further breakthrough and progress in the fight against Covid-19. This week the device has been granted official approval of its registration with The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).  
malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi

Lancaster to help research invasive malaria mosquito

Lancaster University is involved in a major research project which aims to control the spread of an invasive malaria mosquito in Sudan and Ethiopia.
the other front line

Launch of the Covid19-Other Front-Line Alliance

Untold stories from disadvantaged groups affected by Covid-19 are being collected and publicised in an international initiative to highlight the devastating impact of the pandemic and advocate for social justice to be at the forefront of the recovery.

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Contact Us

By post

Health Innovation One

Sir John Fisher Drive

Lancaster University

Lancaster 

LA1 4AT

By email

HIC@lancaster.ac.uk