NHS Grampian
What We Do
- Work with clinicians and managers to define concrete examples of health and social care challenges that reflect NHS Grampian and Scottish Government strategic priorities
- Build consortia consisting of NHS Grampian staff, industry and academia to develop and test innovative solutions
- Identify close-to-the-market potential solutions and ensure NHS Grampian is an attractive environment to test and evaluate these products
- Contribute to efforts to develop the necessary infrastructure, including a live clinical data environment to develop and deploy in-house and external innovation processes and products
- Design and deliver projects and programmes of innovation activity, including analysis of effectiveness and all aspects of system impact
- Negotiate contracts and evaluation agreements
- Co-ordinate and navigate healthcare systems on behalf of external partners, including providing leadership and facilitation to all aspects of R&D and information governance processes
- Support all aspects of national innovation activity through attending and leading strategic and operational committees and groups
- Signpost and support innovators and entrepreneurs with support, funding opportunities and regulatory guidance
- Support the creation of cross-system conditions to facilitate high quality innovation activity.
Opportunity North East
BioHub, led by ONE, is a transformational £40 million investment to make Aberdeen one of the most dynamic locations in the UK to create and grow life sciences businesses.
BioHub is scheduled to open in autumn 2022 and will provide laboratory, incubation and collaboration space, custom accommodation, specialist business growth programmes, and access to expert networks and investors.
University of Aberdeen
The Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) is a secure, virtual healthcare data analysis and storage centre established by the University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian to allow for the secure processing and linking of health data for the Grampian and Scottish population when it is not practicable to obtain consent from individual patients.
Robert Gordon University
In Life Sciences, our clinical purpose-built research facilities include:
- Biological Services Unit (rats, mice and GM breeding colonies and supports short and long-term studies, surgeries and metabolic studies)
- Pharmacy Simulation Centre (SIM) to develop professional skills.
- CyanoSol Lab: state-of-the-art facilities for algal/cyanobacterial production
- The Centre for Natural Products with access to the Natural Products Library for the in-house screening and commercial sale of extracts.
- A ward area, occupational therapy home setting, radiography suite, physiotherapy suite and gym, simulated community pharmacy and human performance laboratory.
- State-of-the-art human performance and ergonomics laboratories including two motion analysis suites enabling 3D modelling of human motion with integrative electromyography assessment.
- Strength assessment through isokinetic dynamometry.
- Body composition assessment through 3D scanning. Ultrasound and portable 3D modelling of kinematics and kinetics.
On the Computational side, our facilities include:
- RGU Cloud Development Project;
- Big Data Server;
- private Cloud Computing Server;
- high specification PCs;
- Render Farm and Desktop Virtualisation;
- virtual environment VMware Horizons server network (top-spec DELL 710 and 810 servers) with NVIDIA Graphics for virtualisation (400-node HPC) and 3D rendering work;
- RGU Cloud Replacement – Nutanix Cluster (With ITS);
- Nvidia DGX;
- VR headsets for immersive technology.
