Our aim
It is our vision to accelerate innovation in the life sciences sector for patient benefit through the development and evaluation of clinical diagnostics.
Who we are
The North East Innovation Lab is a commercial laboratory integrated into Newcastle Hospitals – widely regarded as one of the UK’s leading healthcare institutions, with strengths spanning clinical excellence, research, innovation, and collaboration. It provides services which support the development and evaluation of new diagnostic tests
Our services
- Regulatory support
- Prototype development
- Performance evaluation
- Validation studies
- Clinical performance/utility studies
TRLs supported
Funding requirement
Either self-funded by company or researcher, or as co-applicants or collaborators on a grant.
Evidence requirements
Our customers
Hexagon supported
Contact details
More teams
- Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC)
- NovoPath
- MedConnect North
- Medical Device Development Service (MDDS)
- NIHR HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) in Diagnostic and Technology Evaluation
- NIHR Innovation Observatory
- Newcastle Hospitals Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Group
- Newcastle University Business Development & Enterprise
- Newcastle Joint Research Office (NJRO)
- NIHR Research Support Service (RSS)
- NIHR Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) Newcastle
Newcastle University Research Facilities
- Genomics Core Facility
- Bioimaging unit
- Infectious Diseases Facility
- Structural Biology Services
- Newcastle University Flow Cytometry Core Facility
- Pre-clinical in vivo Imaging (PIVI)
- Bio-screening Facility
- Protein and Proteome Analysis Facility
- Newcastle Central Biobank Facility
- Bioimaging unit
- Newcastle Hospitals Commercial Enterprise Team