In June, the 25th BIO International Convention (BIO) was held in Boston, Massachusetts. The event attracted almost 18,300 delegates from 67 countries and 1,800 exhibitors. Over 46,900 business partnering meetings took place, the largest ever at any business event, and made BIO a Guinness World Record holder for ‘Largest Business Partnering Event’. There were over 180 seminar sessions where delegates gained unique perspectives on the...
The Scottish Biotech company Ryboquin has acquired Nanogenic Solutions, to form a new product and platform company, which, following acquisition will be named Nanogenics Limited. Ryboquin raised £4.45 million in its third funding round from new and existing share-holders to acquire Nanogenic Solutions. The combined company is set to revolutionise gene therapy by pioneering the safe, efficacious and regular dosing of all forms of gene...
Scotland’s MindMate, a Glasgow based start-up with an app for those with Alzheimer’s, continues to break ground in the life sciences industry as the company has partnered up with an Australian biotech company to help recruit patients to treatment trials. This highlights the amazing opportunities for collaboration that are available in Scotland providing unique insights into many of today’s global challenges. The free mobile health...
Ingenza is pleased to announce a collaboration with the University of Dundee and Drochaid Research Services on a highly innovative project that aims to reduce the waste carbon dioxide generated by industrial biotech manufacturing applications. Funded by Zero Waste Scotland, the proposal involves capturing and recycling the emerging CO2 waste streams that evolve during fermentative bioprocessing, and using them as a supplementary carbon feedstock for bio-based...
Vascutek and Bolton Medical, subsidiaries of Terumo Corporation of Japan, have combined into Terumo Aortic. Combining the aortic companies into a single business, Terumo looks to grow its presence in the global aortic and vascular implants market. The new company brings together two leaders in the aortic implant market. The new identity underlines Terumo’s global growth ambitions, further to a previous US$43 million factory investment. Known as...
Dr Diane Harbison, CEO of the Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC) says it is like looking at the strata – or layers – of rocks in geology, except that in medicine it’s separating people into different sub-groups based upon genetics and how they respond to various treatments. “Most people assume that if you have a type of cancer, for example breast cancer, that it’s all exactly...