Office for Life Sciences
UK cross-government unit coordinating life-sciences industrial strategy.
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Why did the Office for Life Sciences co-author a plan to fix Britain's lab-skills gap?
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Co-published the Life Sciences Jobs Plan
UK Startups and Innovation: Jobs plan targets the lab-skills gapBackground
The Office for Life Sciences co-authored the Life Sciences Jobs Plan alongside DHSC, DSIT and DBT, published 9 July 2026. The plan targets the gap between life-sciences graduates and employer-ready laboratory skills.
The unit sits jointly under the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, coordinating the government's life-sciences industrial strategy across research, manufacturing and skills policy rather than running programmes directly itself.
Its role on the jobs plan lands the same week the state made its largest-ever direct biotech investment via Alchemab Therapeutics, positioning the office as the coordination layer sitting behind the week's funding headlines.
