Our Facilities & Infrastructure

The Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC) is a world-class hub for research, education, and innovation for diabetes and long-term conditions. Located at the Leicester General Hospital, our purpose-built facilities provide an exceptional environment for ground-breaking studies, professional training, and collaborative projects aimed at improving the lives of people with diabetes and long-terms conditions through prevention and management.

Our Facilities

At LDC, we host cutting-edge infrastructure, including state-of-the-art clinical spaces, advanced laboratory facilities, and dedicated areas for education and community engagement. These resources are readily accessible to our expert teams, researchers, healthcare professionals, and collaborators, enabling them to deliver impactful outcomes in diabetes care and beyond.

Explore our facilities below and the extensive research infrastructure housed within LDC.

The Leicester Diabetes Centre is a clinical facility located on-site at the Leicester General Hospital. The LDC has in excess of 6000m2 of clinical research space accommodating our multidisciplinary team. The centre provides access to:

• State-of-the-art clinical experimental medicine infrastructure

• Spacious seminar rooms

• Virtual consultation facilities

• Research laboratories, including biopsy rooms, clinical assessment suites, and exercise laboratories, which contain four automated breath-by-breath gas analysis monitors, specialist treadmills, cycle ergometers and resistance exercise machines

• Microvascular Imaging Suite

• Biomarker discovery and analysis laboratory

• BioBank

• DXA Machine

• Indirect calorimetry

• Multidisciplinary diabetes foot clinic

• Latest technology for type 1 management

• Accelerometry