Commercialising
research and innovation

ONE BioHub in Aberdeen is the place to co-locate and grow with a thriving peer group of researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to translate world-leading science to the marketplace.  

ONE BioHub has available incubator laboratories and office space to rent and fully customisable grow-on space for growing life sciences businesses. ONE BioHub also offers hot desking, co-working, event and meeting spaces.

ONE also offers commercialisation and growth programmes, and access to mentors, expert networks and investors.

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ONE BioHub features commanding views across Foresterhill health campus and Aberdeen city.

  • Reception, café and collaboration space

    Hot desks, meeting and event spaces

  • 6 wet laboratories incubators

    7 office incubators

    450m² of grow-on space for further laboratory and office fit-out

    Co-working office space

  • 2,500m² of grow-on custom fit out laboratory and office space

Aberdeen is home to
world-class innovation-led enterprises

North east Scotland demonstrates a diverse array of businesses in the life sciences sector developing diagnostics and treatments in many areas including neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, infectious diseases and cancer.

ONE BioHub is set in the heart of Foresterhill, one of Europe’s most significant combined life sciences and healthcare sites, taking advantage of the ‘triple helix’ – access to academia, healthcare and industry. 

  • Start-ups and spinouts

    Start-up laboratories, offices, hot desking, co-working and collaboration spaces with options on shared laboratory facilities.

  • Scaling and established businesses

    Grow-on space and customisable fit-out offices and laboratories.

  • Events and meeting space

    Flexible spaces and AV/IT for conference, meeting and board room events.

  • Life sciences business support

    Commercialisation, accelerator and business growth programmes with access to empowering networks and investors.

Start-ups and spinouts

ONE BioHub is a welcoming new-build space providing flexible hot desking, co-working, collaboration, laboratory space and offices for rent for start-ups and spinouts in its ground, mezzanine and first floors. ONE delivers life sciences commercialisation, accelerator and business growth programmes in ONE BioHub.

  • Fitted out incubator laboratories for rent

  • Perimeter bench top, lockable drawers, shelving and storage cupboards

  • Shared facilities: ice machine, glass washing, drying cabinet, autoclaves, fume cupboard, freezer room and UHQ water

Scaling and established businesses

ONE BioHub offers flexible grow-on space and customisable fit-out space for rent for scaling and established life sciences businesses in its second and third floors.

  • Grow on and customisable space for laboratories and offices

  • Access to storage, meeting space and central facilities.

Open shared space and central facilities

ONE BioHub has a secure main entrance where tenants and visitors are welcomed by the front-of-house team. The ground and mezzanine floors include open collaboration and event space, hot desking and meeting rooms.

Shared spaces

  • Café facilities and seating area

  • Informal working and meeting space

  • Bookable private meeting room space

  • Toilets, showers and drying area

  • Secure reception and reception team

Central facilities

  • Central waste and recycling

  • Tenant gas bottle store

  • Tenant plant

  • Goods in and storage

  • Dedicated goods lift

Outdoor space

  • Secure bike storage on-site

  • Car parking for tenants

  • Electric vehicle charging points

  • Outdoor seating and walkways

A sustainable place to grow and develop

We are committed to sustainability and aim to minimise the overall carbon footprint and the transition to net zero.

  • 10% on-site renewables generated through rooftop solar PV panels

  • Electric boilers that facilitate the transition to net zero

  • Air source heat pumps generating hot water for space and domestic heating

  • LED Lighting and EPC A rating

  • Cycle parking and EV charging points

  • Enhancing biodiversity with wildflowers and wildlife boxes in the surrounding areas

Transport connections

ONE BioHub sits within the Foresterhill Health Campus, which is within walking and cycle distance from the city centre as well as served by buses and taxis and is a 10 minute drive from Aberdeen city centre and railway station. Aberdeen International Airport provides national and international flights and is a 25-minute drive from ONE BioHub.

Become a ONE BioHub tenant

If you are interested in becoming a tenant at ONE BioHub, renting laboratory, office, co-working or hot desk space, please complete the below form.