Consulting

Newcastle Innovation's contract research and consulting services can be tailored to suit specific projects and enable small and large organisations to access our multi disciplinary research talent to address specific R & D issues.

Whether it be providing expert opinion or specialist testing services, Newcastle Innovation can provide a direct route to individual researchers and consultants as well as groups and specialist business units within the University.

Facilities and Equipment

The University has specialised testing facilities and equipment which can be contracted through Newcastle Innovation for purposes of consulting or contract research. The facilities are well equipped and include state of the art laboratories, workshops and studios with excellent technical support.

Current facilities available include:

• Advanced Mass Spectrometry Unit

• Biomolecular Research Facility

• Electron Microscope and X Ray Unit

• High Performance Computing

• Animal Services Unit

• Philips 1710 and X'Pert XRD systems

• Advanced Surface and Porosity Characterization Facility

• Thermo HR ICP-MS (Trace element and mental analysis)

• GV IR-MS (analysis of CO2 Isotopes)

• Amersham Ettam MALDI-TOF (Protein identification)

• JEOL 1200 EXII TEM (TEM)

• Amersham spot picker (gel scanning and spot picker for MALDI-TOF analysis)

• FACS Vantage (Cell sorting)

• Integrated Multi-node Microfluidics facility