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Alliance Boots today announces a collaboration with BioCity, the UK’s leading bioscience incubation company, to establish a new business incubator focused on health and wellness called MediCity.

MediCity, a new subsidiary of BioCity, will provide innovative start-up and growing businesses in the health and wellness sector with fully serviced office and laboratory space, based within the Nottingham Enterprise Zone on the Alliance Boots site in Beeston. It represents a promising step in the site’s development and will encourage new businesses into the Nottingham area.

BioCity Nottingham Ltd, the UK’s leading provider of life sciences business incubation services, has been appointed by AstraZeneca to establish a new centre for bioscience companies at Alderley Park in Cheshire. The BioHub, will initially provide 36,000 sq ft of high-end laboratory and office facilities for early-stage and growing firms engaged in innovative drug discovery and development. Demand for accommodation is expected to be competitive with the first three tenant companies due to move on site today.

BioCity Nottingham has completed a major refurbishment of office suites and central communal areas worth in excess of £450,000. The building reconfiguration and redecoration in the UK’s busiest bioscience business incubator began in December 2012 and was officially completed in March this year. BioCity’s position in the heart of Nottingham’s new Creative Quarter continues to attract ambitious life science start-up companies looking for the best facilities as well as on-site business advice.

TweetFindings of the 2012 UK Life Science Start up report ‘Realignment’ Press interviews with Dr Glenn Crocker from midday at Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, UK An optimistic picture of the UK life sciences sector emerges from today’s publication of the annual UK Life Sciences start-up report. BioCity Nottingham, celebrating its 10th Anniversary [...]

Several BioCity Nottingham-based firms had the opportunity to meet Business Secretary Dr Vince Cable on Monday this week when he paid a fact-finding visit to the busy centre for life science companies. Dr Cable was guided round the site by BioCity Nottingham director Toby Reid who described the ten-year expansion of the incubation facilities and why the nurture of new ventures in such a supportive environment is crucial to success.

An optimistic picture of the UK life sciences sector emerges from today’s publication of the annual UK Life Sciences start-up report. The 291 new firms launched in the study period represent the next generation of growth-focussed firms, born at the dawn of a new era for the bioscience and life science sector.

BioCity Nottingham-based CompanDX Limited, the Nottingham Trent University spinout applying novel bio-informatics technology to the issues of personalised medicine, is pleased to announce the raising of 39,600,000 Renminbi (CN¥) (£3.9m) for development of products in China.