Queen's University Belfast & Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute
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Queen's University Belfast and the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute have formed an alliance.
Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) is ranked within the top 4 in the UK when it comes to exploitation of IP when measured based on total IP revenue. A report for the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) placed Queen’s in Group 1 for knowledge exchange and commercialisation, a cluster of 4 institutions defined as “large, high research intensity universities with significant IP activity”. The Welcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine (WWIEM) boasts a new environment for interactive multi-disciplinary research and represents a £32 million recent investment. This research environment and the proximity of major tertiary hospitals promote the integration of both basic and clinical translational research facilitating the discovery and development of new targeted therapies and diagnostics. The laboratories within the WWIEM contain the latest equipment for all molecular and cell biology research, including advanced microscopy and image analysis, multi-parametric flow analysis and cell sorting (Wellcome Trust funding). In addition, core facilities include a tissue pathology core, genomics core and bioimaging core and a state-of-the-art SPF animal facility representing a further £7 million investment.
The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) is an internationally renowned multidisciplinary scientific organisation that delivers research andother scientific services to a wide range of local, national and internationalcustomers in the public and private sectors. The staff of AFBI carry out worldclass scientific research, surveillance, and analytic and diagnostic testing in the areas of animal health and welfare, sustainable agricultural systems, plant science, food innovation and safety, environmental protection, fisheries and aquatic ecosystems, and agricultural and rural economics. State of the art high containment facilities for large animal infection and laboratories for tissue culture, molecular and immunological aspects of the work are available on the Veterinary Sciences Division site at AFBI.
