Worthing offers a significant cluster of life sciences firms, with more than 200 Healthcare and Medical Device companies – above the weighted sectoral averages for the South East.
Worthing is home to a number of internationally acclaimed firms working at the forefront of innovation in the field of life sciences including the Rayner Surgical Group, GSK and Allergy Therapeutics.
Worthing’s medical devices and pharmaceuticals companies employ close to 1,300 people.
For both sectors, the workforce is more than three times the weighted UK national average.
With three universities on it’s doorstep and a pool of over 11,000 graduates at the forefront of computer science, medicine, bio sciences – employing staff with bright, young minds will be easy.
The University of Sussex’s School of Life Sciences is ranked 9th in the UK university league table,
87% of it research in biological sciences is rated as internationally excellent or higher.
Located within the University of Sussex are both the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) and the world leading Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies.