Roche Diagnostics UK & Ireland: Transforming health together

The strategic, innovation-led partnership with Roche Diagnostics Limited, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding in October 2024, builds on years of collaboration.

Focusing on four key areas: Biomarkers, Population Health, Digital Health, and Laboratory Automation, it brings together academia, industry, and healthcare to deliver innovation and impact.

As a result of this strengthened partnership, the University has been integrated into major national and European consortia in cancer and cardiovascular disease.

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Our partnership with the University of Liverpool demonstrates the real impact that collaboration can deliver. Together, we are making meaningful progress in improving lives across the Liverpool City Region through the power of diagnostics, driving innovation to ensure more people access the care they need, faster.

Matthew Johnson, Director of Access and Innovation at Roche Diagnostics UK & Ireland

Roche Diagnostics UK & Ireland has also supported technological innovation, including the provision of a VENTANA® DP 600 digital pathology slide scanner for the UoL-led EYE-CAN-AID (Eye Cancer Artificial Intelligence Digital Bioresource) initiative in ocular oncology.

The partnership drives regional impact through a Healthcare Charter Partnership, uniting more than 20 organisations – including NHS Trusts, local authorities, and industry - to improve health outcomes and boost prosperity across the Liverpool City Region and beyond.

Looking to the future, the University’s Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL) will collaborate with Roche Diagnostics UK & Ireland to establish the world’s first design studio dedicated to real-world diagnostic solutions, aimed at maximising the use of NHS data to enable earlier testing and better follow-up care, particularly for vulnerable patients.

Through collaboration and co-creation, the UoL–Roche partnership exemplifies how academia and industry can unite to drive innovation, deliver real-world health outcomes, and strengthen the Liverpool City Region’s health ecosystem, catalysing collaboration that extends across organisations and drives regional impact.

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Get involved

Be part of the Charter Partnership Organisations across the Liverpool City Region, including businesses, charities, and public sector bodies, are invited to join this growing collaboration.