The new UK Life Sciences Vision sets out a mission-led approach with bold ambition for the next decade to ensure scientific excellence, following the UK's life sciences sector's central role in the country's efforts to combat COVID-19 with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine made in Thames Valley's Oxfordshire. The...
In January 2020, when Covid-19 was still unknown to much of the world, Oxfordshire’s scientists were already working on a response. The county’s well-established life sciences ecosystem – which includes pioneering academic and medical institutions, unique research establishments, and hundreds of biomedical companies – was...
Oxfordshire is one of Europe’s most successful Life Sciences clusters with a track record in establishing and attracting world leading life sciences businesses. Oxfordshire has the key ingredients that make up a world-class innovation ecosystem: a flourishing environment for innovation and business creation; world-leading experts...
This proposition focuses on the growing opportunities in Life Sciences to attract investors and demonstrates the dynamic and innovative environment of this sector in the UK, known as a global MedTech hub. The UK is world-leading in its research capabilities with world class universities, such the...
The report provides an analysis and commentary on the impacts of COVID-19 on the Thames Valley and it's economy as of August 2020. EY's report analyses the contributions of the regions strengths and challenges of for its resilience in the current climate of disruption regarding COVID-19...
Learn more about the world leading Life Sciences and Healthcare sector in Oxfordshire and its response to COVID-19. The response from the county’s life sciences sector to COVID-19 has been immediate – a mass-mobilisation which is witnessing ground-breaking research around vaccines, diagnostics and treatments, all within...
Discover how Oxfordshire is an engine for innovation. Learn more about one of Europe’s most- successful Life Sciences clusters with a track record in establishing and attracting world-leading life sciences and healthcare businesses. Home to the University of Oxford, Oxfordshire is part of the UK’s ‘Golden Triangle’,...
Ageing is inevitable, but how we age is not. While advances in modern medicine, public health and nutrition have given us the gift of longer life, a significant proportion of those extra years are spent in poor health. With one of the fastest growing ageing...
The report follows on from the life sciences industrial strategy, written by Life Science’s Champion Professor Sir John Bell. It sets out the progress in delivering the vision of the strategy since it was published in 2017. The report is organised into 5 key themes: NHS collaboration Business...
The Slough Trading Estate is home to over 350 businesses that may differ in size and sector, but are united in enterprise and endeavour. 'Tools of the Trade' highlights just some of these industrious companies....