Tenancy Options

UMIC Biotech provides the following tenancy options:

  • Virtual Tenancy
  • Hot desk
  • Office & Lab Unit
  • Grow on space

Virtual Tenancy

Virtual tenancy offers a professional impression for your company and a professional environment for your client and company meetings. It is suitable for spin-out or start-up companies which are not yet ready for dedicated company office or laboratory space in UMIC’s biotech incubators. It enables you to have a presence in the biotech incubators, which provides access to:

  • Premium business address for biomedical and technology based companies in the centre of Manchester
  • Incoming mail collected
  • Inclusion in the Manchester incubation network, alerting your company to events, training, funding opportunities both the Biotech and Hi-Tech incubators
  • Dedicated direct dial telephone number with voicemail (cost of calls recharged)
  • Voicemail forwarding by email and remote access dial in
  • Reception services for visitor management
  • Onsite restaurant and starbucks coffee bar
  • Discounted pay as you go access to state of the art conferencing and meeting facilities.

Hot Desk

Combined with Virtual Tenancy, this option allows a company to use a work-station only when they need it. This provides access to:

  • Desk
  • Wireless access 
  • The biotech business environment

Office and Laboratory Accommodation

  • A range of office and bioscience laboratory accommodation as described in the MBI and CTF facilities section, are available on a tenancy basis. A flexible range of lease options are available.

Tenancy-related enquiries are always welcome and should be directed to:

Dr Martino Picardo

martino.picardo@umic.co.uk