Facilities and technologies
Cutting-edge assets for groundbreaking research and collaboration
Our team offers rapid turnaround on commercial fee-for-service and equipment access for some of Birmingham’s leading medical, engineering, and technical research facilities, along with the expertise needed to propel your projects forward.
Medicine & Health
BetaCell Birmingham
Provides stem cell-generated beta cells for UK researchers at cost value
Biomolecular NMR facility
A £16m national resource, providing insights into the molecular basis of biological mechanisms in human and environmental health
Birmingham Tissue Analytics
Combines academic expertise and cutting-edge technologies in high resolution single cell imaging and digital histology
COMPARE Advanced Imaging Facility
Offers training, support and access to equipment for advanced microscopy and image analysis
Flow cytometry
Supports flow cytometry, cell sorting and mass cytometry
Genomics Birmingham
Resource centre providing a range of genomic services, along with a technology suite for researcher access
Human Biomaterials Resource Centre (HBRC)
Provides a simple and efficient way to collect, store, and distribute human samples and data according to regulatory requirements.
Intravital Microscopy Suite
Imaging facility dedicated to the delivery of high-quality and high-impact intravital microscopy
Metabolic Tracer Analysis Core
Provides high resolution methodologies to investigate metabolic activity in health and disease
Microscopy facility
Provides a wide portfolio of imaging platforms including Widefield and Confocal microscopes with fast detectors
Protein expression facility
Provides a recombinant expression and purification service
Steroid Metabolome Analysis Core (SMAC)
Specialises in mass spectrometry based multi-steroid profiling to investigate steroid metabolism in biological samples
Engineering & Physical Sciences
Manufacturing and device fabrication facilities
An ISO 7 (class 10,000) cleanroom equipped for microlithography, and a supporting process room facility
Mass spectrometry for chemistry research
Extensive expertise and a large range of world-class instrumentation for research and analyses in the Chemical Sciences
National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF)
A unique facility spanning research, innovation, education, CPD and training in buried infrastructure-ground interaction
Terahertz measurement facility
An advanced multi-purpose measurement facility for test and characterise novel low THz devices and systems
Facility for Electron Microscopy
Provides expertise in operating electron microscopes and data interpretation across the whole materials and life sciences spectrum
Science City laboratory
Offering advanced microscopy and imaging techniques, material analysis, mechanical properties analysis, and particle sizing.
High flux accelerator-driven neutron facility
Supports the study of neutron interactions from fission to fusion, in materials for the nuclear sector, nuclear medicine and space
Life and Environmental Sciences
Cellular Health
Provides services to explore cellular health and function in real-time using state-of-the-art technology
Facility for environmental nanoscience analysis and characterisation (FENAC)
Supports research into the biological and environmental impacts of nanomaterials
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