MedTech incubator welcomes 7th Birmingham-born startup

The seventh Birmingham-born company has entered the University of Birmingham’s Unit 9 MedTech incubator Enterprise.

Birmingham Biotech, which has operations in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the UK, is a manufacturer and supplier of innovative medical diagnostic equipment and devices.

He joined Unit 9 to join the ecosystem at Birmingham Research Park, which has successfully nurtured high-growth companies since 1986.

Unit 9 opened in 2022 as a specialist incubator to support emerging companies in the second city’s thriving medical technology scene.

“We created Unit 9 as a space to complement the existing infrastructure for translational work in the city, and Birmingham Biotech is a perfect fit for the incubator, which has already benefited six other Birmingham-born companies,” said Angie Reynolds, Chief Operating Officer at Birmingham Enterprise University.

Unit 9 was founded as a collaboration between University of Birmingham Enterprise, GBSLEP Growth Hub and West Midlands Combined Authority to support innovation, creativity and growth in the city.

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It is part of a unitary ecosystem that surrounds the University of Birmingham campus and provides short-term incubation for tenants, who also benefit from a business support programme, an equipment sharing agreement with the University.

Unit 9 is located at Birmingham Research Park, which has a number of landing spaces for companies looking to locate in Birmingham, including BioHub Birmingham, which provides Unit 9 tenants with facilities for cell culture of microbiology work.

The health and life sciences sector in the Midlands is home to the UK’s largest group of medical technology businesses and boasts strengths in the 4Ds – diagnostics, devices, digital and data – as well as world-leading research institutes and clinical infrastructure for large environments. scale trials.

MD Michael Hsu of Birmingham Biotech said: “The Unit 9 incubator is the perfect laboratory space for us. It is the right size, low cost and in a good location.

“It has easy access to the university campus, research departments and hospitals, which will facilitate current and future collaborative research activities. We will also benefit from business support from the University of Birmingham Enterprise and other facilities from BioHub Birmingham.”

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