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Wales ’ premier purpose built medical research and business incubation facility
Biovici Ltd Biovici continual focus is to provide Point of Care Technology which converts biological data and transfers that information within seconds to a hand held electronic reader . Biovici ’ s result driven information can be shared to any part of the Health Care chain from Paramedics first at the scene in Acute Care to Accident and Emergency Departments . The handheld reader stores and transfers the information obtained to relevant Health Care Professionals and Accident and Emergency Personnel . This assists in accelerating patient diagnosis and treatment by Health Care Professionals .
Innoture Medical Technology Innoture has assembled a team of commercial and academic expertise to deliver next generation transdermal devices for use in multiple applications within drug delivery and diagnostics . It holds worldwide patents enabling the company to adopt a unique position in the manufacture , development and commercialisation of microneedle technologies . Innoture ’ s patented microneedles offer extreme flexibility compared with standard and traditional microneedle technologies and processes , allowing layering of compounds , flexibility of substrates and dynamic mass manufacture that is cost effective .
Porvair plc Porvair plc develops , designs and manufactures specialist filtration and separation equipment . It serves a range of market segments of which aviation , energy and industrial process , environmental laboratories and non-ferrous metals are the most important . Chromatrap is a new way of doing ChiP assays , pioneered and developed between Porvair PLC and a Swansea University team .
Bionema Ltd Bionema is a leading independent research organisation focused on the development of novel natural biopesticide products , helping farmers and growers combat insect pest damage to a wide range of food and other crops .
Bionema is at the forefront of large scale testing and has won ORETO ( Official Recognition of Efficacy ) accreditation for its testing facilities and procedures . It is currently in the process of registering an innovative new product in both the UK and EU that can reduce or even eliminate conventional chemical pesticides .
Industry on-Line Ltd Using cutting-edge web technologies we provide trading partners and service providers in the life sciences industries with a dedicated online collaborative platform that enables and enhances end-to-end , online transactions and work-flows between trading partners . The platform helps industries to reduce the time ( and cost ) to source , negotiate , ship and pay for products to minutes instead of days – all without the need for external paperwork , lengthy phone calls , expensive travel , or time consuming research , as well as enabling companies to evidence transparency in their transactions through audit trails and logs to EU and FDA guidelines .
Leadin Leadin is a service design and production agency designing and building digital services that empower people to achieve more based on value created from user insight . Leadin has the skills required to capitalise digitalisation – user researchers , business consultants , service and UI / UX designers , system and software architects , frontend designers as well as quality assurance experts . We work with businesses in all sectors including well known brands such as Jaguar Land Rover , Sandvik , ABB and DVLA .
Health and Care Research Wales Workforce The Health and Care Research Wales Workforce is part of Health and Care Research Wales , funded by Welsh Government . The Health and Care Research Wales Workforce works in support of Welsh Government ’ s overarching vision which is to be internationally recognised for excellent health and social care research that has a positive impact on the health , wellbeing and prosperity of the people in Wales . The Workforce ’ s role is :
• To provide a co-ordinated national research delivery service in health and social care in Wales and
• To work collaboratively with NHS Research and Development teams , the Health and Care Research Wales Support Centre and Health and Care Research Wales Centres and Units to develop an integrated system for research development , support and delivery in Wales .
SymlConnect Ltd Symlconnect develops customised software solutions working in collaboration with clinical specialists , academics and general public . We specialise in supporting customised integrated care solutions aimed at reducing clinical time wastage by equipping Clinicians with appropriate information at-the-point-of-care for a better informed decision making . Our unique modular and secured framework is standards based and available both on offline & online , for use within primary , secondary and community care . The smart mobile solutions combined with the business intelligence are focussed to improve the cost efficiency and quality of care giving anywhere anytime to improve the digital economy of the various healthcare organisations .
Hospital Management Trust The Hospital Management Trust ( HMT ) has located an R & D facility within the ILS to develop ICT healthcare solutions . The local HMT site , Sancta Maria Hospital , offers a wide range of healthcare services and is the first choice for NHS registered consultants servicing the south and west Wales area . With a history , spanning over 50 years , Sancta Maria owes its excellent reputation to a strategy of gentle care combined with clinical excellence .
Perpetuus Advanced Materials Perpetuus Advanced Materials ’ patent pending twin-platform technologies , is based on the mass production of graphenes , surface modified graphenes and functionalised graphene heterostructure , and application development technologies designed to meet the key parameters required to move graphenes out of the R & D stage into the industrial exploitation phase .
Affiliate Membership As well as housing a cluster of companies , the ILS also operates an Affiliate Membership scheme providing shared and hot-desk facilities for micro-enterprises and satellite operations of larger organisations . The scheme provides facilities and support to individuals and organisations that do not require a dedicated office or permanent base at the ILS but wish to collaborate with academics and become embedded in the ILS ecosystem .
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