Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is a major acute teaching hospital. With a 24-hour Accident and Emergency department, it provides a full range of acute medical and surgical services for patients from across Lothian, and specialist services for people from across the south east of Scotland and beyond.

• Acute medicine
• Cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery
• Gastroenterology, General surgery
• Maternity, gynaecology, and neonatal units
• Orthopaedic surgery
• Renal (kidney) medicine and dialysis
• Respiratory medicine, Sleep medicine
• Transplant surgery (kidney and liver transplant)
• Vascular surgery

Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences

An exciting new chapter began in the proud histories of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP) with the full opening of new, purpose-built facilities next to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

The stunning, world-class facilities will add to the innovation, teaching, healthcare and clinical capabilities already on BioQuarter, including paediatric clinical trials.

Also co-located within RHCYP:

• Department of Clinical Neurosciences (DCN)
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

Children’s A&E at Sciennes is now fully closed.

The Queen’s Medical Research Institute

A world-class clinical research facility, the Queen’s Medical Research Institute has four strategic centres addressing major disease challenges. A large proportion of academic clinicians based in QMRI are also consulting with and treating patients on a regular basis.

The Institute is home to:

• Centre for Cardiovascular Science
• Centre for Inflammation Research
• Centre for Regenerative Medicine
• MRC Centre for Reproductive Health

The Chancellor’s Building, University of Edinburgh Medical School

Home to the world-leading Edinburgh Medical School, the Chancellor’s Building offers lecture theatres, seminar rooms and a clinical skills centre, as well as library and computing facilities.

Centre for Regenerative Medicine

A research institute based at the University of Edinburgh. Scientists and clinicians study stem cells, disease and tissue repair to advance human health.

The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic

A charitable University of Edinburgh clinical research facility, delivering research and trials for people with neurodegenerative disease (e.g. MND, MS), as well as hosting NHS Lothian specialist clinics for these conditions.

University of Edinburgh Centre for Dementia Prevention

The Centre combines research in science, medicine and social sciences to lead global efforts in preventing dementia.

• Advance understanding of biomarkers in clinical and preclinical human populations
• Drive global efforts to deliver new medicines that could act before clinical symptoms of dementia appear
• Improve the experience of living with dementia by developing strategies that increase quality of life

Edinburgh Imaging

Edinburgh Imaging clinicians, researchers and scientists work together to advance health through excellence in imaging science. Thanks to continued investment, our world-class imaging facilities allow our skilled team to carry out cutting-edge collaborative research in four main themes; neuroimaging sciences, cardiothoracic imaging, reproductive/neonatal imaging and veterinary imaging.

• Hosting Scotland’s first PET-MR scanner, alongside three MR scanners and a PET-CT scanner
• Our cyclotron and radiochemistry suite allow us to produce radioisotopes for clinical and research use
• An image analysis suite enables efficient post-processing and assessment of imaging data
• We offer high-quality imaging and data management for local research projects to global clinical trials
• Winners of BMJ Imaging Team of the Year Award

NINE - Life Sciences Innovation Centre

NINE is the Life Sciences Innovation Centre at BioQuarter, owned by Scottish Enterprise, it has been designed specifically for rapidly growing life sciences companies, service companies and inward investors wishing to engage with the expertise across the campus. Once fully developed, BioQuarter will offer up to 1.4m sq ft (130,063 sq m) of specialist accommodation for academic, commercial and healthcare activity.

• Home to over 25 award-winning life sciences companies
• Specialists in: biotechnology, life sciences product and diagnostics
  Contract research, medical device and industrial biotechnology
• Access to all clinical, academic and scientific expertise across the campus
• Business Support services
• Events and networking opportunities

Health Data and Bioinformatics at BioQuarter

Edinburgh BioQuarter boasts unique capabilities in health data, genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. The co-location at BioQuarter of the Usher Institute alongside the Administrative Data Research Centre (ADRC), HDR UK and IHDP has brought research to many areas of medicine including that of respiratory conditions, mental health, oncology, imaging and has been incorporated into cross-disciplinary projects across the campus and beyond.

• Edinburgh houses the largest bioinformatics hub in Europe
• Usher Institute hosts the Centre for Medical Informatics, which links with NHS Scotland

The BioCubes

The BioCubes form part of the commercial office and lab space at BioQuarter. Currently, these are spread over two buildings, with plans for future developments.

Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility

Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility provides local clinical researchers with access to space, nursing input and scientific support to conduct high quality clinical research, focused on experimental medicine.

• 150 professional staff employed across three hospital sites in Edinburgh
• Highly-skilled GCP-trained staff able to support the delivery of both commercial and non-commercial clinical research
• Phase 1 MHRA accreditation at both adult and paediatric facilities – the first and one of only four non-commercial CRFs in the UK to have this accreditation standard
• Scientific, administrative and educational support embedded within a quality-assured patient-centred environment

University of Edinburgh Centre for Tissue Repair

Together with the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, the University of Edinburgh’s new Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR) will bring together around 600 researchers with a focus on tissue regeneration and repair. The new building will be a unique interdisciplinary research facility. It will address critical bottlenecks in the development and commercialisation of regenerative therapies, and will:

• Provide purpose-built laboratory facilities to accommodate development of an interdisciplinary research environment
• Integrate chemists alongside biologists and clinical researchers to address key challenges in the translation and commercialisation of regenerative therapies
• Provide a state-of-the-art space for 250 researchers

Usher Institute

The vision of the Usher Institute is: To catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.

Growing and developing rapidly, as both a core Institute within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and as one of five delivery hubs within the University of Edinburgh’s Data-Driven Innovation Programme.

Four Centres make up the Institute – Population Health Sciences being the oldest, with Global Health Research, Medical Informatics and most recently Biomedicine, Self and Society now sitting along with the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit and the Mackenzie Medical Centre (a local GP practice run through the Institute).

The new building is due to open in 2023 and will provide a base for members of the Usher Institute including the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, as well as partners and start-up companies working in the field of data-driven innovation in health and social care.