Professor Chappell was shown around the Daphne Steele and Emily Siddon buildings at NHIC by deputy vice-chancellor Professor Tim Thornton.

Professor Chappell said: ‘It was a pleasure to visit the University of Huddersfield and meet the leadership team. We saw at first-hand the impressive innovation taking place across the campus, with clear reach into the local community.

 ‘The Daphne Steele and Emily Siddon Buildings showcase a real commitment to collaboration, and the future of education and research, helping to improve patient health outcomes.'

Facilities including the state-of-the-art labs used for the recently-opened radiography and dental hygiene and dental therapy courses were visited during Professor Chappell's tour, as well as the new Health Business Innovation Centre (HBIC).

The HBIC is a pillar of the Huddersfield Health Innovation Incubator, a regional programme designed to support pre-to-early stage and growing organisations to develop innovative solutions to improve health and wellbeing, funded by the West Yorkshire Investment Zone.

Professor Chappell, Professor Thornton and other stakeholders from the university and Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber discussed to how to bridge R&D into the adoption and scaling-up of innovation for the kinds of businesses in the health space that will use HBIC, modelled on the successful 3M Buckley Innovation Centre (3MBIC) also on campus.