Life Sciences Sector

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Key companies within Birmingham's Life Sciences sector:

• Delcam
• Perceptive Informatics
• Hybrid Systems
• Indigo Photonics
• Mermaid Diagnostics
• Primecare
• Techniswage
• Wallwork Heat Treatment

Delcam
Birmingham based number one international CADCAM software supplier to the mould, tool and die sector. Delcam's Power Solution products are used by organizations in over 50 countries world-wide in a huge range of applications. These range from conceptual design and modeling for manufacture, to pattern making and tool making, for a variety of sectors including the automotive, aerospace, plastics, ceramics, rubber, glass, shoe making and packaging industries. Click here to view the Delcam case study.

F W Pharma Systems Ltd
An independent, global company dedicated to providing business solutions to the clinical research sector. With offices on both sides of the Atlantic, the company has worked with many of the world's top pharmaceutical companies to provide computing solutions to more than 13,000 users worldwide.

Hybrid Systems
Starting life on Birmingham Research Park, last year Hybrid Systems signed its first licensing agreement with a major biotech firm. Scientists behind the company have developed a process to improve gene therapy through the use of polymers.

Indigo Photonics
The first company to emerge from the photonics cluster, the company is a spin out from Aston University into the new Midlands Photonics Cluster headquarters at Aston Science Park. Following a £4m investment by venture capital company 3I, Indigo Photonics secured a partnership with the gratings division of Oxford Fibre Optic Tools. Indigo specialises in high-end products that enable fibre transmission systems to support high quality data rates over long distances.

Mermaid Diagnostics
Another company based on Birmingham Research Park, it has in recent months begun to sell its products measuring toxic agents in saliva and blood.

Primecare
A £3 million emergency call centre for out-of-hours doctors, giving medical advice and arranging for doctors to make consultations in the home, and is based at Summer Hill Road. Staffed by doctors, nurses and telephone operators, the centre is one of two in the country. The centre has already recruited 80 call handlers and will eventually employ around 250 staff.

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