2018
August
First industry collaboration contract signed.
May
First fee-for-service contract generated running through ICON.
2017
June
Dissemination of NPC standardised SOPs and methods to partner organisation to drive standardisation agenda for metabolic phenotyping.
April
NPC and NIHR run “NIHR Workshop on Metabolic Phenotyping and launch free e-learning modules in association with NIHR.
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2015
September
Start date of H2020 PhenoMeNal – Large-Scale Computing for Medical Metabolomics H2020 grant with NPC as a partner.
May
NPC organises the first “Phenomics and Phenome Networks” Symposium.
2014
November
Successful non-stop analysis of over 3000 samples, confirming stability and robustness of platform and profiling methods.
April
Start date of UK MEDical BIOinformatics partnership – aggregation, integration, visualisation and analysis of large, complex data (UK MEDBIO) with NPC as partners.
2013
August
Receipt of first samples for analysis
June
NPC Launch Event – facility opened by Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities and Science; Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer; Professor Sir John Savill FRS, MRC Chief Executive and Sir Keith O’Nions, President of Imperial College London.
April
1st Pilot Call Project Awards announced.
2012
December
Start date for MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre grant awarded to Imperial College London.
April
Imperial Biomedical Research Centre Clinical Phenotyping Centre opens for clinically translational projects for Imperial and Imperial NHS Trust researchers.
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