Medicines Discovery Catapult

The intention to form the company was announced by the Chancellor on 13 July 2015 with funding of £5m, on a visit to Cheshire. It would be part of the Northern Powerhouse initiative. The Medicines Technologies Catapult was established in December 2015, On 1 March 2016 its name changed to the Medicines Discovery Catapult. Further funding of approximately £10m per year was secured from Innovate UK for the years 2018 to 2023. The Leeds site is now the Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health. == Activities ==

A not-for-profit company, the MDC works with a range of UK innovators to advance projects and products towards clinical impact. In 2019, the company stated that it worked in four sectors: By 2021, this centre employed over 700 staff and had a stated capacity of 80,000 test samples per day. == Key people ==

Dr Robin Brown has been the company's chairman since July 2018; The company has no shareholders. ==See also==