Glasgow University will host a new coronavirus testing facility in the city centre to help fight the pandemic. The site was announced as part of a series of measures to increase testing and response to the spread of the killer virus across the UK.
It will be opened in collaboration with the Scottish Government and industry experts from BioAscent Discovery Ltd and the University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit.
The new testing centre will be able to provide capacity for substantially more COVID-19 tests per day, and will be located in the University’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus.
The site, currently the University of Glasgow’s Clinical Innovation Zone, is already designed to meet industrial scale standards and will be able to