August 2023
Received accreditation by Investors In People.
March 2023
Following a surveillance audit UKBC maintains ISO 15189 accreditation.
April 2022
UKBC takes on UK’s largest health research programme – Our Future Health.
March 2022
UKBC processes 31.7 milion COVID-19 samples peaking at 126.000 a day.
December 2021
UKBC increases storage capacity to 35 million samples across 2 sites.
December 2021
UKBC processes 70.000 samples for BioResource.
March 2021
UKBC grows to 1500 employees to support NHS Track & Trace.
December 2020
UKBC has processed 7.5 million COVID-19 samples.
October 2020
UKBC is accredited to ISO 15189 by UKAS.
June 2020
PM Boris Johnson visits UKBC to celebrate over 1,000.000 processed COVID-19 samples.
May 2020
UKBC grows to 400 employees covering 24/7 operations.
April 2020
UKBC expands site for NHS Track & Trace, processing 5000 samples a day. The team is joined by 150 scientists to scale-up logistics and increase processing throughput.
March 2020
Prof. Sir John Bell announces UKBC as the first lighthouse laboratory for NHS Test & Trace.
2014
UKBC provides world-leading sample management and high throughput bioprocessing.
2011
UK Biocentre (UKBC) was founded.