VRS is an international consultancy and experimental service provider specialising in virus research from drug screening to testing antiviral products.
Just over 5 years ago, Virology Research Services (VRS) was born out of the need to do something different.
Indeed, we did want to offer something different by bringing our experience, resourcefulness, and flexible mindset to the world of scientific contract services. In truth, it was more than this. It was the drive to forge our own unbeaten path, to pursue what inspired us, and to reject all that didn’t resonate.
What followed was a series of intense brainstorming sessions. In a corner of Heal’s café, Tottenham Court Road, two academic researchers developed the plans for Virology Research Services. We launched in 2017, under the umbrella of UCL Consultants at University College London – where we worked as research scientists – and then, more officially, as a limited company at the end of 2018 with a Lab facility outside of London as well as UCL.
Out of the need to reunite the team under one roof in 2022, we began the ambitious project of designing and building our own bespoke virus facilities, inclusive of a CL3 lab, at KSP.