3. Why Northern Ireland?
Access to and
Availability of
Talent
Excellent Scientific
R&D Base
High Quality
Clinical Data and
Materials
Excellent Physical and
Communications
Infrastructure
Innovation-friendly
Healthcare System
4. A highly educated and skilled workforce
52,000
undergraduates
& postgraduates
B.Sc. & M.Sc.
Stratified
Medicine
13,000 studying
life & health
sciences subjects
5. Top 10 in the UK for
Bioscience Research
Clinical specialisms
Oncology
Inflammation
Respiratory
Cardiology
Dementia
Diabetes
Vision
Obesity
Enablers
Precision Medicine
Diagnostics
Clinical Trials
Big Data
World-class Scientific Capability
6. High Quality Patient Data & Clinical Materials
NI Health Service
• 5 Trusts, 66,000 staff, 10 Acute hospitals and also 6 Enhanced/local
hospitals
• Fully integrated health care provision
Highly Regulated Environment and Support
• Wellcome Trust- Woolfson Foundation Clinical Research Facility
• NI Cancer Trials Centre (NICT) & Network (NICTN)
• Clinical Research Networks integrate with UK wide Clinical Research
Networks
• Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre
Access to Data and Clinical Samples
• NI Electronic Care Record (NIECR)
• Honest Broker Service – Northern Ireland in lead position for Big Data
• NI BioBank - NHS tissue archives, unique tissue microarrays, DNA libraries
• International Health Analytics Centre
7. Innovation-friendly Healthcare System
Healthcare
Innovation
‘Living Lab’
Small and complete demographic –
1.8m people
‘Closed Loop System’ – ideal
conditions for Public/Private
collaboration
Microcosm for NHS and social
services across the UK
Global opportunities for Northern
Ireland health innovations
Market access to NHS, largest single
healthcare market in the world – 72m
patients
Healthcare Innovation
Programmes
Small Business Research Initiative
(SBRI):
Current calls:
- Support for stroke survivors
- Medicines management in
domiciliary care
Previous calls:
- Medicines optimisation
- Stratified medicine
- Assisted living
- Paediatric improved
- diagnostics/ non-invasive
technologies
Precision Medicine Testbed:
- Validation & adoption
Industry focused
Programmes
Support Infrastructure
Precision Medicine Catapult
(CLIA Ready)
Clinical Translational Research &
Innovation Centre
Connected Health Innovation Centre
HSC Innovations
NI Connected Health Ecosystem
8. Support & Infrastructure
Attractive tax regime
• Corporation tax rate lowering to 12.5% in April 2018
Support
• Invest NI financial assistance can include – grants towards
salaries, pre- & post- employment training and R&D
• Access to UK’s R&D tax credits and patent box
• Invest NI connect & signpost to potential collaborators &
experts including academia, business, clinical & regulatory
$
World-class physical and communications infrastructure
• Fast reliable road, rail, air and telecoms links between
Northern Ireland, North America and Europe
10. ‘Northern Ireland, Leading the way in Life &
Health Science’ Panel Session
- Dr Robert Ladner, CEO - CV6 Therapeutics
- Gareth Maguire, Director of Business Development - Almac
- Joel McComb, CEO - Biospyder Technologies
- Prof David Waugh, Director - Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology - Queen’s
University Belfast
Barry Henderson
Business Development Director
Invest Northern Ireland
Hinweis der Redaktion
Northern Ireland Intro
Invest Northern Ireland works with companies seeking to grow and service their European Market, reduce costs or access specific expertise to further develop their products. Northern Ireland hosts a thriving life science sector, key enabling infrastructure and strengths across a number of specific disease areas and technology domains. Generous government support and a lower incoming taxation rate make Northern Ireland very attractive proposition.
NI has a highly educated and skilled population with 52,000 under/postgraduates with > 13,000 studying life and health science subjects. NI is home to the UK’s first B.Sc and M.Sc courses in Stratified Medicine. Recent ‘FDI Benchmark’ comparison data for a 50 person life science R&D centre indicates that salary costs in NI would be >50% lower than Boston.
Ulster University & Queen’s University Belfast rank among the top 10 in UK for bioscience research. A buoyant local sector has seen investment from public and private sector increase to $0.5 billion in last 5 years. NI has a key strength in Precision Medicine which couples academic and clinical specialisms in Oncology, Inflammation, Respiratory, Cardiology, Dementia, Diabetes, Vision and Obesity to core capabilities, technologies and infrastructure relating to Diagnostics, Clinical Trials and Big Data.
High Quality Patient Data and Clinical Materials
NI hosts key enabling Clinical Research Infrastructure which is highly regulated and scalable including:
NI Cancer Trials Centre (NICT)
Wellcome Trust- Woolfson Foundation Clinical Research Facility,
NI Cancer Trials Network (NICTN)
Clinical Research Networks integrate with UK wide Clinical Research Networks
The International Health Analytics Centre & Honest Broker Service position NI in lead position for Big Data with NI BioBank providing access to NHS tissue archives, unique tissue microarrays, DNA libraries etc.
NI has a population base of 1.8m each of whom benefit from fully integrated health care provision utilizing the NI Electronic Care Record (NIECR), a unique resource in the UK. It represents a single source of patient data including laboratory test results, x-rays, full patient documentation and details of conditions including diabetes and related co-morbid disorders enabling information to be easily shared across the entire patient journey.
Precision Medicine Catapult- Cancer Diagnostics
Dx & eHealth: drive innovation & industry growth, early test-bedding, adoption, reimbursement (CLIA Ready)
Infrastructure & Support
- NI’s new Corporation Tax (April 2018 Rate: 12.5%) and various R&D, pre-employment, training and salary grants Invest Northern Ireland offer, the region has become very attractive to US companies.
- Market Access to the National Health Service, largest single healthcare market in world with 72m patients, now enabled via the Small Business Research Initiative