[3] The PMC was based in Cambridge and had regional centres of excellence at Belfast, Glasgow, Cardiff, Oxford, Leeds and Manchester.
It started from April 2015, and worked with regional parts of the Diagnostic Evidence Cooperative and Academic Health Science Networks (AHSN).
A not-for-profit company, the MDC works with a range of UK innovators to advance projects and products towards clinical impact.
[3] In 2020, the company was given the task of setting up one of the first PCR analysis centres for COVID-19 tests – known as Lighthouse labs – elsewhere at the Alderley Park site.
[citation needed] Dr Robin Brown has been the company's chairman since July 2018;[3] he has a PhD in molecular biology and has worked in venture capital at Advent Healthcare.