UK Biobank, the large-scale biomedical database, is set to receive £127.6m to fund a move to purpose-built facility at Bruntwood SciTech’s Manchester Science Park.
This follows an application by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Infrastructure Fund to support UK Biobank’s development.
UK Biobank’s biological samples, laboratories, headquarters and around half of its 250 staff will move to the new facility.
The funding will cover a latest-generation robotic freezer four times faster than the existing facility, to store and retrieve 20 million biological samples that have been donated by UK Biobank’s 500,000 volunteer participants.
