The Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF) at Nottingham Trent University is a £23 million, dual-site research and development centre focused on advancing healthcare innovation. It supports businesses, researchers and clinicians in developing medical technologies from early-stage concepts through prototyping, testing and clinical application. Equipped with specialist laboratories, cleanrooms and advanced equipment, MTIF enables multidisciplinary collaboration across fields such as biomaterials, robotics and medical device design. Its mission is to accelerate the translation of ideas from “bench to bedside,” improving patient care while supporting commercialisation, regulatory compliance and regional economic growth through partnerships with industry, healthcare providers and academia.
Equipment and services includes:
-Thin Films (Additive and Subtractive fabrication and manufacturing including coatings) Ellipsometer, laser.
-ATMPs (Cell & Gene Therapy), Biomaterials and Biocompatibility, Flow cytometry, storage, Cold plasma fusion, qPCR, PCR, CliniMacs Prodigy, DNA printer BioXP
-GMP and ISO 6 Clean rooms, Bioquell Grade A Isolator Qube, maskless aligner, Photonics
-Microbiology, Laminar flow, antimicrobial cabinet, Autoclave
-Imaging (including MRI) SEM TEM, AFM, light sheet, Confocal, 1.5 tesla siemens MRI
-CRO Preclinical and Clinical Trials
-Research & Development outside of core areas, FDSS Hamamatsu
-Medical Technologies, smart wearables
-Integrated Theatre Suite (ITS), STERIS OR HexaVue TM
-Analytics (Chemical, Physical, Biological) Bench top NMR
-Pharmacokinetics (Hamamatsu)
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