Can your company provide a short placement (minimum 50 h) to our third year Life Science students? The Department of Biological and Biomedical Science at Glasgow Caledonian University are seeking industry partners to help inspire the next entrants to the scientific workforce, and provide invaluable skills to prepare them for work after graduation. Our students have knowledge and practical skills in Microbiology, Cell and Molecular...
The new directory called Scottish Health Research and Innovation Ecosystem launched today at the annual Life Science Scotland conference in Glasgow by Dave Tudor, Co-Chair of the Life Sciences Scotland Industry Leadership Group (LSS) as he discusses the importance of Momentum and Collaboration within the industry. This tool will facilitate essential collaboration between the NHS and other life sciences organisations in Scotland. A greatly simplified search...
Scotland’s life sciences community will come together again this month to set a course for the industry to meet its ambitious turnover target of £8 billion by 2025. The title of the event, Moving Forward Together: To 2025 and Beyond captures the two key themes: momentum and collaboration. Currently, the most up-to-date figures for the life sciences sector in Scotland are from 2015 and show...
Do you know an individual/company/organisation that has made a major contribution to the development of the life sciences sector in Scotland over the last 12 months? If so, nominations are now open for Scotland’s Life Sciences Awards 2019. Now in its 19th year, this sell-out calendar event regularly brings together 750 of the leading lights in the global life sciences community to network and to...
On 29th October 2018, a major signage and wayfinding project was unveiled at Edinburgh BioQuarter. Jointly delivered by BioQuarter’s four public sector partners – the City of Edinburgh Council, NHS Lothian, Scottish Enterprise and the University of Edinburgh – this ambitious project is a practical leap forward in building BioQuarter’s status as a leading life sciences campus for Edinburgh, Scotland and the UK. As well...
First Minister opens £54 million building. GSK’s £54 million new state-of-the-art production building in Montrose has been opened by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for use in GSK’s Ellipta respiratory inhalers will be produced in the building and it is the second multi-million investment on the Montrose site over the last two years. The First Minister said: “This new facility is testament...