The Life Sciences and Healthcare landscape is transforming. Demographics, quality of life, environmental and economic shifts are all contributing. As the global population is growing and aging, new areas of medical need are emerging. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us all that the world needs to be better prepared to respond to global health emergencies, regardless of geography, or socio-economic position.

These changes mean significant challenges for the Life Sciences and Health sectors, but they are also driving exceptional efforts for technological advances and global cooperation. NPL’s advanced measurement science infrastructure and capability will be essential to address these challenges and realise the opportunities they provide.  

We are working to shape the future of healthcare, to get new and more effective diagnostic tools, treatments, and medical technologies to patients more quickly.

Michael Adeogun - Head of Life Sciences and Health Strategy, NPL

We provide national science and measurement infrastructure, which provides expert metrology capability to the Life Sciences and Health sector. Our expertise helps deliver confidence in the data which underpins decision making in the development of new medicines and brings together the physical sciences with other disciplines to tackle health challenges and accelerate technological innovation. At NPL we:

• Enable longer, healthier and more prosperous lives by accelerating the detection of priority diseases and our readiness to fight current and future pandemics
• Support the UK’s position at the forefront of leading-edge healthcare and the rapid adoption of new drugs and future therapies in line with regulation
• Develop the bioeconomy to deliver net zero and a sustainable future
• Provide confidence in data for early diagnosis and precision medicine
• Deliver new measurement capabilities and infrastructure for the improved understanding of diseases.

NPL is supporting key areas of Life Sciences and Health to:

• Improve understanding of biological systems and processes
• Underpin the infrastructure for clinical imaging and treatment modalities
•  Support the implementation of advanced manufacturing processes
•  Enable real-time, in vitro and in vivo diagnostics
•  Ensure the increased use, quality and trustworthiness of life science data

Our scientists work closely with collaborators across the UK and around the world to inform our approach to current and foreseeable challenges. We create partnerships with key stakeholders from the private, public and non-profit sectors to help drive innovation.

Contact us to find out more about our Life Sciences and Health work and learn more of the expertise available through collaboration with our experts.

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