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SULSA Undergraduate Industry Placement Scheme
Funding is now available for companies to provide one-year industry work placements to life sciences students at Scottish universities.
10 March 2010
Author: LIfe Sciences Scotland
Glasgow spin-out technology to reach wider market
Reactivlab, a University of Glasgow spin-out company which specialises in animal health diagnostic technology using Acute Phase Proteins, has been taken over by the Avacta Group.
8 March 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
Professors appointed to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Several professors from the University of Glasgow have been honoured in this year's Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship Presentations.
8 March 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
ClinTec International and HCG celebrate a successful partnership in delivering Global Patient Recruitment Services at European Drug Conference, DIA
Dr Rabinder Buttar, President and CEO of ClinTec International and Frank S. Kilpatrick, President of Healthcare Communications Group (HCG), El Segundo, C A will celebrate their companies' successful collaboration at the upcoming 22nd Annual Drug Information Association (DIA) EuroMeeting in Monaco on 8-10 March 2010.
5 March 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
Science Graduates for Work
An innovative new programme that will help talented science graduates gain a foothold in Scotland's multi-billion pound life sciences industry was launched by Keith Brown, Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning today.
5 March 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
US Life Sciences firm creates new company in Dundee
Stemgent, Inc, an American biotechnology company, has announced the formation of a new company based in Dundee - Ubiquigent Ltd. As part of the agreement, Stemgent will invest approximately £3 million ($4.7 million) in the new venture over the next three years.
4 March 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
Hormone study gives scientists a sense of how animals bond
Scientists have pinpointed how a key hormone helps animals to recognise others by their smell.
25 February 2010
Author: k.fink@nexxusscotland.com
Ingenza 'Innovates with an Apprentice'
On 16 November 2009, Ingenza Ltd - based at the Roslin BioCentre - appointed two Modern Apprentices.
22 February 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
Low-cost DNA test to pinpoint risk of inherited diseases
An inexpensive, fast, accurate DNA test that reveals a person's risk of developing certain diseases is expected to become a reality, thanks to technology developed at the University of Edinburgh.
22 February 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
Glasgow scientist in national push to tackle animal diseases and poverty
£13million of new research has been launched today to tackle the significant and growing threat, posed by livestock diseases, on global food security and livelihoods in developing countries.
22 February 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland