Testimonials

“CanSense are an in vitro diagnostic device company who spun out of Swansea University in 2018. With a novel alternative approach to early cancer detection in development we sought the help of Life Sciences Hub Wales to guide our route to market and signpost us to what help was available to an early stage medtech SME.

Life Sciences Hub Wales were able to provide an expert grant writing service which shaped our successful £1.2 million NIHR invention for innovation product development award in 2021. The bid writer brought insight and a successful track record of grant capture to deliver the winning bid (even working into the night of the deadline!).

Since making contact Life Sciences Hub Wales have worked tirelessly to connect us to the wider medtech community, assisting with key company hires, arranging investor meetings, brokering partnership opportunities with aligned companies, showcasing our work at this year's Expo Dubai and helping us win prestigious industry awards and maximising our media coverage. We cannot thank LSHW enough for their ongoing support and nurturing as CanSense grows its global ambitions.”

"CMR Surgical (CMR) has been working with Life Sciences Hub Wales on the All Wales Robotic Programme since CMR was notified as the winning bidder for the clinical partnerships tender. This programme is an exclusive robotic surgery clinical partnership with NHS Wales to improve surgical outcomes and transform the experience of surgery for thousands of patients in Wales.

CMR’s partnership with Life Sciences Hub Wales has been exemplary. Life Sciences Hub Wales offers high-quality services and consultations to help build business cases that drives innovation in Wales. From the start they have shared our ambitions and vision for this landmark programme and worked with us closely through every step to make sure investment in CMR’s innovation will deliver success. CMR is very satisfied with the service, strategies and insight they provided, as well as their dedication to CMR as a long-term partner."

“Life Sciences Hub Wales helped develop our facemask offering during the pandemic and supported us in bringing those products to market. They connected us with organisations who helped us work through the regulatory frameworks and introduced us to key testing partners.

As a business, we have directly benefited from the ongoing support provided by the team, which has included programme support (Accelerate via Swansea University) communications, media engagement and social media audience development.

Crucially, the team continues to support us with our new ventures and any barriers we were facing.”

"I was fortunate to be chosen to take part in Life Science Hub Wales Accelerate programme in 2020 and I haven’t looked back. The benefits are far reaching, from the SROI evaluation to business and personal development, it was non-stop learning, adapting and growing. 

Accelerate is a great steppingstone for business development, a way of testing, evaluating and analysing from different perspectives."

Life Science Hub Wales co-ordinated engagement between Healthy io and the District Nursing team at Swansea Bay University Hospital, providing project management support during the delivery of our wound care management app pilot.

Our designated project lead has been invaluable to us. Not only has she provided essential programme support but has also given us clear direction and structure. She has also worked with us to develop a clear plan for adoption and prompting us to consider wider roll out requirements.

“By partnering with DGH Pharma via the introduction from Life Sciences Hub Wales we hope to not only grow DGH’s business, but also increase our production staff in two areas: creativity and technology. Taking into account the demands for helping a new start-up with the ambition of upscaling the business over a short period of time, the need for high-end creativity, marketing and technology is vital.

We will increase our workforce by and extra 4 to 6 employees across two departments. This will also have a demand on training internally and externally to enable senior members of our organisation to maintain the high standards required by DGH Pharma. The impact on the business will help increase out turnover by 20-25% which will in turn safeguard the workforce and enable us to open new opportunities to other business sectors.”

“My personal experience of the Accelerate programme has been nothing short of amazing. Everybody has contributed to deliver outputs which have exceeded my expectation. I’m really grateful and pleased that we have collaborated.”

“Life Sciences Hub Wales have provided us with invaluable opportunities to speak to influential people across Wales. From the start, we appreciated how approachable our project lead was. She asked a lot of questions about PainChek and saw the potential for use within social care. As a result of the team’s hard work at Life Sciences Hub Wales, we now have PainChek on the national agenda and are seeking to create a business case once again for roll out throughout Wales.

Life Sciences Hub Wales are a multi-faceted team who are highly skilled in accessing the right people, at the right time. What they say is what they do, and the partnership working we have established over the last year has been central to our success. Without Life Sciences Hub Wales, we would not be where we are today. Overall, they are influential, supportive, and passionate and this is what drives the innovation through to where it is most needed.”

“Our Life Sciences Hub Wales lead has been superb and has given us access to a range of services we were previously unaware of or not currently using. Our partnership with Life Sciences Hub Wales has resulted in a comprehensive market scan, the testing of a new product in Gwent, and event planning support. Aimee has provided us with clear guidance, opened up opportunities, and - most importantly - provided practical support that saves time and resources. We look forward to continuing our relationship and making use of the services and support available.”