The Ella Armitage Building, formerly known as the Sheffield Bioincubator is a former innovation centre in

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...

, England. It contained offices and laboratories for small and medium enterprises in

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and related areas and with links to the

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

. The building is owned, managed and run by the University of Sheffield. The building was closed to commercial activity in 2017 and was incorporated into the University of Sheffield's teaching and research space and renamed the Ella Armitage Building. The building houses the modern languages teaching centre, Grantham Centre and the Department of Archeology.

History

The Bioincubator was opened in February 2006 by

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as a focus for Bioscience and

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in the

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. It was funded by the

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, Sheffield University and

Yorkshire Forward Yorkshire Forward was the regional development agency (RDA) for the Yorkshire and the Humber region of the United Kingdom. It supported the development of business in the region by encouraging public and private investment in education, skills, ...

. The development was intended to assist the growth of an emerging technology and bioscience cluster in the Sheffield City Region. It provided a physical space for partners to work with the University of Sheffield, a

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research institution. In 2007 its partner building the Kroto Innovation Centre was opened.

Notable partnerships

The concept of using

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spectroscopy to detect

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was found to have positive results through preliminary testing. It was presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Oral Medicine in 2013 by Professor Martin Thornhill from Sheffield University. The concept was the outcome of a research collaboration between commercial Bioincubator tenant Zilico, Sheffield University and the

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.-Detecting oral lesions by impedance spectroscopy- a feasibility study

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History

Notable partnerships

See also

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