Facilities and services
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Facilities
The School of Health, Social Care and Life Sciences possesses an array of instrumentation for its staff to deliver world-class research, commercial projects, clinical trials and consultancy services to both academic and commercial organisations.
The state-of-the-art facilities enable a range of investigations from in vitro studies to ex vivo assays and clinical studies in healthy patients and volunteers. Facilities include:
- Cell culture laboratory
- Biochemistry and functional assay laboratory
- Molecular biology and genetics laboratory
- Mass spectrometry suite
- Bioinformatics and data mining tools
- Primary and cell line culture facilities
- Metabolic analyser
- Microfluidics
- Fluorescence microscopy
- Electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometry
- Flow cytomtery
- Myography
- Platelet aggregometry
- Nitric oxide measurement (NO analyser and electrochemical detection)
- HPLC
Services
The Division of Biomedical Sciences can offer a range of services that can be tailored to the requirements of the partner involved. Services include:
- Consultancy
- Fee for service projects
- Collaborative projects
- Planning and design of studies
- Method development
- Data analysis
- patient/volunteer recruitment
- Nutritional services
- Student/researcher placement
- Bespoke education and training
- User engagement
- Digital health applications
Further information
If you would like to contact us about the work of the department or would like to work with us, please email innovation@uhi.ac.uk.