Clients – Health & Sciences
Challenge for Change
Challenge for Change was established to bring to the UK a best practice behaviour change programme that was originally developed in New Zealand. Following five successful programmes there, Challenge for Change’s founder, Thomas Stokell, created a sustainable business model to grow this programme, to get more people cycling in the UK and across the world.
Their mission is to be world leaders in designing, developing and implementing innovative and highly effective behavioural change programmes that are consistently proven to get more people cycling, more often.
Chamelic
Chamelic products are based on stimulus responsive polymers to serve the coatings and additives markets. The company was formed in early 2006 and has focused on smart coatings, with an easy-clean coating being their first product.
Chamelic’s technology is based on the knowledge and expertise of Prof. Simon Biggs from The University of Leeds.
ENCOS
Encos Ltd was founded in 2007 as a spin-out from the University of Leeds to exploit research carried out by Dr John Forth of the Department of Civil Engineering into the use of alternative binders in construction materials. The Company has developed a unique patented technology for producing fully sustainable construction products. The process, which consumes no water and produces no waste enable the manufacture of carbon negative masonry units.
Escubed
Escubed limited provides comprehensive analytical and research services in particle and powder technology to customers across all sectors. They have the experience and expertise to characterize your materials, understand structure-property relationships, optimise manufacturing, and help maximise your profits. Working in partnership with business they provide research, development and manufacturing support, method development and validation, routine QA analytical services, problem solving and trouble shooting, expert witness support. Escubed is Your Partner in Particle Technology.
Lhasa Ltd
Lhasa Limited is a well-established not-for-profit company and educational charity. Their charitable objective is to promote the development and use of computer-aided reasoning and information systems for the advancement of chemistry and the chemistry related sciences.
Lhasa Limited is a leading global supplier of knowledge based software and associated databases for use in metabolism, toxicology, and related sciences.
LUTO Research Ltd
LUTO (Leeds University Testing Organisation) is a consumer information testing company, geared towards enabling UK pharma companies to meet the new user testing requirements for medicine information leaflets.
They work in collaboration with pharma companies to develop and test medicine information leaflets to meet the legislative requirements of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). They aim to help patients to use their medicines safely and effectively through information that is clear and understandable.
Medisoft
Medisoft has sold its ophthalmology electronic patient record system to many hospitals in the UK. The software product features rapid data collection, decision support, enables communication with GP’s and much more. They are a leading publisher of multimedia CD-ROM’s for primary care physicians, medical students, nurses and optometrists.
Mednet Consult
Mednet Consult is a healthcare consultancy that is committed to providing innovative and bespoke solutions. They work with all healthcare organisations including, Department of Health, Commissioning and Provider Organisations, Social Services, Independent and Third Sector Organisations, Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies. They are driven to achieve the highest standard of excellence, innovation and communication in serving healthcare organisations. Taking great pride in applying vision and focus creativity to every challenge.
NIHR TCC
The Research Capacity Development Programme is funded by the Department of Health (DH) as one of it’s National Programmes. It is managed on behalf of the DH by the National Institute for Health Research Trainees Co-ordinating Centre (NIHR TCC). The RCD Programme makes research training awards to individuals who show the potential to become research leaders in their particular field and whose research is people or patient-focused and relevant to the NHS.
NKD
NKD are a design company and leading provider of multimedia training materials and developer of training systems, e-learning courses and diagnostic tools to the medical profession. Projects include various melanoma projects (GenoMel, Cancer Research) and Pharmaceutical training diagnostic tools.
PCRN
The National Institute for Health Research Primary Care Research Network (NIHR PCRN) is a part of the NHS dedicated to expanding clinical research in primary care.
It brings together a wide range of primary care health professionals and promotes high quality research in areas for which primary care has particular responsibility. These include disease prevention, health promotion, screening and early diagnosis, as well as the management of long term conditions, such as arthritis and heart disease.
PCRN supports research that is driven by the priorities of the NHS and the Department of Health, and informed by the views of patients and their carers. It works closely with other departments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to promote and deliver high quality clinical research across the whole of the UK.
Photopharmica
Photopharmica develops light sensitive drugs (known as photosensitisers) for the prevention, detection and treatment of diseases for licensing to pharmaceutical companies. The company is based around photodynamic research performed by the Leeds Centre for Photobiology and Photodynamic therapy in the field of therapeutics.
The company’s initial focus is on developing therapeutic drugs/applications in four product groups in the areas of infectious diseases and Oncology.
WYCLRN
The West Yorkshire Comprehensive Local Research Network (WYCLRN) is one of 25 CLRN’s across England, which form part of the Comprehensive Clinical Research Network (CCRN). CCRN provides support for clinical trials and other well designed studies in all areas of disease and clinical need.
X-Lab
X-Lab was set up by Leeds University’s programme of Open Innovation in 2007. They are part of the White Rose Health Innovation Partnership and are funded by The University of Leeds Proof of Concept Fund, building on research done in 2006 within the School of Computing. After consultation with several labs in the north of the UK, X-Lab now has a thorough understanding of the problems in the send-away process and throughout pathology and is working on innovative solutions to help solve them.
Yorkshire Process Technology Ltd
Yorkshire Process Technology is a synthetic chemistry company producing specialist intermediates for pharmaceutical and applied chemical industries. They have particular expertise in use of precious metal catalysis and catalytic coupling chemistry. Founded in conjunction with Leeds Institute of Process Research and Development they also offer scale-up and process optimisation capabilities. Equipped to operate from the milligram to kilo scale , they can carry out syntheses and process development across the full range of lab scales.