Health Innovation Campus

What we do

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

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

Joanne helping a little girl read a book

Speech and language therapists give children a voice with a new web-based tool

With the assistance of Lancaster University Software Developers, founders of Communicate SLT develop a new web-based tool to support their important work as children’s speech, language and communication therapists.

Dr Cheryl Simmill-Binning and a carer at work

New project to turn volunteering work into rewarding careers in health and social care

The Health Innovation Campus is working with cross-sector partners to develop an agreed Volunteering Pathway Programme to take people from voluntary work into rewarding careers in health and social care.

Lancashire SME ClearTrace relocate to Lancaster University’s Health Innovation Campus (HIC) for continued R&D partnerships

ClearTrace has specialised in infection prevention and control (IPC) treatment and deep cleaning of areas at risk of infection for over 10 years. Founder Adam Murfitt a graduate of Lancaster, first approached the university when he decided to expand is offering in response to client demand. Adam attended the Lancashire Forum and managed to access funding for market research with the global leading management school.

Plasma jet, Professor Rob Short and Dr Sherry Kothari

Ground-breaking project to use plasma jets to decontaminate essential medical equipment exposed to the Covid-19 virus

A NEW project developed by Lancaster University’s Health Innovation Campus and Material Science Institute will see pioneering technology used to decontaminate vital medical equipment exposed to the Covid-19 virus, via a partnership with University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT).