REPROCELL Europe, based at Thomson Pavilion, Todd Campus, West of Scotland Science Park, is a company formed by the merger of Biopta and Reinnervate in July 2016, with a vision to improve human health through biomedical innovation and discovery. We asked Dr David Bunton, formerly CEO of Biopta and now of REPROCELL Europe, our 3 leadership questions to get some insight about his leadership approach...
By Darren Orr, Scientific Consultant Recruiting is a challenge. You can save money on agency fees and increase your chances of finding a diamond in the rough by employing these simple measures. This should hopefully eliminate some of the timewasters. Managing candidate shortages If you have interviewed for a role plenty of times and find someone good then don’t stand around. Offer them the role...
The MedTech sector is currently growing at a rate of 8% and Scotland is home to over 250 established and emerging Medical Technology companies driving this growth. Edinburgh Molecular Imaging is one such company. They are developing a pipeline of highly novel in vivo agents that have the potential to alter the landscape of precision medicine. With the recent successful completion of one of their...
Innovation is critical to the 2025 Life Sciences strategy to grow the industrial turnover to £8bn by 2025 with the value of farmed seafood the highest it has ever been to the nation’s economy. With Aquaculture being one of our seven sub sectors in Life Sciences Scotland, the role of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre in our sector is a significant one. SAIC aims to...
As Director of Glasgow City of Science and Innovation, Dr Susie Mitchell has a unique role in serving multiple organisations (over 90 in fact) and the stakeholders within them. This makes for a very specific type of leadership experience and one that is relevant to anyone entering into or managing a collaboration. We asked Susie our 3 leadership questions to get some insight into her...