Healthcare & Life Sciences

‘CTRIC’

Derry City Council with its partners the Western Health & Social Care Trust (WHSCT) and University of Ulster are working to grow the life and health sciences sector in the north west. In pursuit of this aim, the Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre (C-TRIC) is a unique facility, promoting and facilitating translational and clinical research, the primary objective of which is to reduce both the time to market and the costs associated with research and development of innovative health technologies, medical devices and therapeutics. C-TRIC’s unique infrastructure and key support staff facilitate clinical research and innovation, enabling the streamlining of developments from the laboratory to the market place through a focused 'bench to point of care' approach.

Derry City Council is supporting the C-TRIC Programme of support through a 3 year, £250,000 programme of market awareness, business, clinical and research support being delivered in conjunction with WHSCT and the University of Ulster.
www.c-tric.com

 

Are you a Bio- Entrepreneur?

The Bio- Entrepreneur programme has been developed between Derry City Council and C-TRIC aimed to support entrepreneurship in life and health science in Northern Ireland and assist in strengthening C-TRIC as a key Healthcare Innovation hub in UK and Ireland.

The ‘Bio-Entrepreneur Programme’ is a dynamic new initiative that has been designed to support entrepreneurs, innovators and start-ups develop their innovations for better healthcare whether they are software related, medical devices, diagnostics or therapies

The programme will provide tailored support comprising of the use of hot-desk and/or lab facilities at C-TRIC for 12 months and mentoring support from a mentor to address a specific issue or barrier relating to the development of your business idea.

Click here to find out more or apply.


The C-TRIC Programme is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the European Sustainable Competitiveness Programme for Northern Ireland