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- Cancer patients benefit from new technology
- Patients being treated for cancer will benefit from a new type of intensity modulated radiotherapy system (IMRT) which has now been successfully installed at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre.
- 30 July 2010
- Completion of £1.7 m fundraising at Ambicare
- Ambicare Health, a leading developer of ambulatory light sources for medical and consumer healthcare applications, has completed a £ 1.7m fundraising. The proceeds of the fundraising will be used to facilitate the roll-out of its lead product, the Ambulight PDT, the world's first light emitting sticking plaster for the treatment of skin cancer and for working capital purposes.
- 30 July 2010
- Event to help businesses to develop new technologies
- Businesses and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with ambitious ideas are being encouraged to attend an event focusing on a new Scottish Funding Council (SFC) knowledge exchange competition.
- 30 July 2010
- Solid Form Solutions increases staff
- Solid Form Solutions announces four new staff have joined the company.
- 30 July 2010
- Encap Drug Delivery receives patent approval for DuoCapTM capsule system
- Encap Drug Delivery granted patents for DuoCapTM, capsule delivery system.
- 30 July 2010
- Touch Bionics wins at the International Business Awards
- Touch Bionics, developer of advanced upper-limb bionic technologies and clinical solutions, today announced that it has won the award for the Most Innovative Company of the Year in Europe in the 2010 International Business Awards.
- 29 July 2010
- Can animals foretell the environmental impact of climate change?
- A Glasgow researcher has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh fellowship to examine new environmental monitoring methods.
- 29 July 2010
- Highland Directors shortlisted for UK Institute of Directors Awards
- Three directors based in the Highlands have been shortlisted for the final of the Institute of Directors (IOD) UK Awards which take place in London in October.
- 29 July 2010
- UK comes top in global 'quality of death' report
- The UK has come top in a report ranking the quality of end-of-life care provision around the world that draws heavily from the research of a Glasgow professor.
- 29 July 2010
- Breakthrough Breast Cancer identifies potential new treatment
- Scientists from the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh have discovered a potential new way to treat a common form of breast cancer which affects 800 Scottish women and 9,000 UK women each year.
- 29 July 2010
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