Lancaster University announces £41m Health Innovation Campus

Lancaster University has unveiled a major new investment in helping people live as long and as healthily as possible.

The university is funding the project with backing from Lancashire Enterprise Partnership’s Growth Deal Fund and the European Regional Development Fund.

Innovations will be targeted around the prevention and early diagnosis of illness and access to care.

Lancaster University’s deputy vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Atherton, said: “Lancaster University’s role as an economic anchor and driver of innovation has been recognised nationally and we have helped thousands of businesses grow, especially in the North of England.

Graham Cowley, Chair of the LEP’s Growth Deal Fund, said: “It is set to be a fantastic facility which will drive new research and inspire fresh thinking with regards to how we tackle the key health issues regionally, nationally and globally.

The campus will work by co-locating academics from a broad range of different backgrounds in a new building alongside businesses and other partners. The building will also provide a new home for the university’s expanding work in in health and medicine.