Further investment secured for £210m life sciences campus

A bid to develop a £210m life sciences campus in Birmingham, which could create 10,000 jobs, has received a new boost.The Birmingham Health Innovation Campus (BHIC) project has received up to £14m from the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP).The campus is being delivered through a long-term collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Bruntwood SciTech.Phase one of the ten-acre development includes a 133,000 sq ft, seven-storey building which will offer lab and office space to companies specialising in medtech, precision medicine and digital healthcare.The building will also be home to a new innovation centre – the Precision Health Technologies Accelerator (PHTA) – which is the focus of the investment by GBSLEP.GBSLEP’s investment will support the design and fit-out of the state-of-the-art facilities of the PHTA, which will include a range of incubation suites comprising: wet and dry lab facilities with offices, training, meeting and innovation spaces and a prototyping and small-scale manufacturing suite supporting businesses in the development of their new medical technologies