We are UK Biocentre.
Delivering your science.
UK Biocentre was established in 2011 as the service arm of UK Biobank, a national research initiative that collected biological samples and data from 500,000 UK volunteers. UK Biobank implemented an industrialised approach to biological sample processing and management that is now available, through UK Biocentre, to the international scientific research community.
UK Biocentre is a market-leading provider of end-to-end biospecimen processing solutions that support and facilitate large scale biomedical and clinical research studies which enable life changing research.
We provide end-to-end solutions, from sample collection through to processing, analysis and long-term sample cold storage.
We are a not-for-profit organisation, so any funds that we generate get invested back into the business enabling us to remain commercially competitive and at the cutting edge of science.
Career opportunities at UK Biocentre
Find out more about our team, and how to join us.
UK Biocentre is in a very exciting period of growth. We are delighted to be looking for passionate and enthusiastic people who share our ambition to join us on our journey.
We pride ourselves on the relationships that we build both internally, and with our clients and customers and we were thrilled to have recently been awarded Investors in People accreditation.
We take the development of our team very seriously and are committed to making UK Biocentre a great place to work and to develop yourself and your career.
What's happened so far...
July 2024
GRAIL Galleri Project completed.
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 processes 70,000 samples for BioResource.
December 2021
UKBC increases storage capacity to 35 million samples across 2 sites.
March 2021
UKBC grows to 1,500 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 5,000 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.