SYMBIOSIS Pharmaceutical Services, a fast-growing specialist sterile manufacturing CDMO, has reported FDA approval for its viral vector manufacturing fill/finish process at its biologics manufacturing facility located in Scotland, UK. Symbiosis recently hosted a successful inspection by the United States Government Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the aseptic manufacture of viral vector products for commercial supply into the U.S market at its GMP manufacturing facility,...
Innovate UK are expected to launch a £98m challenge centred around healthy ageing this autumn. The call remit is likely to be broad but will centre on enabling us all to live more independent, healthier, and happier, lives through the use of digital technology. In preparation, a group of around 30 stakeholders met in Edinburgh on 29 August to discuss this opportunity. This self-selecting group...
Ahead of the 2018 FIP World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Glasgow, Scotland, Harriet Pike speaks to some of the key players behind the congress programme to find out what’s in store. Wherever you practise, patients’ needs are changing. Advances in science and technology mean that individualised treatments can offer better outcomes than a “one-size-fits-all” approach. But there are challenges: new technologies often...
Following the hugely successful Life and Chemical Sciences Leadership Master Class Programme of 2018, applications are now being taken for the 2019 programme. The focus of this programme is to enhance the development of a leadership pipeline, from within Scotland, to ensure that the ambitious growth targets of both life and chemical science sectors are realised. Next year’s programme, which will commence on 30th January...
IVAN McKEE, the new Scottish Government Minister responsible for life sciences, has joined the speaker line-up for the sector’s major annual conference. Mr McKee will outline his vision for making life sciences an £8 billion industry by 2025 at the event at The University of Strathclyde’s Technology and Innovation Centre on Monday November 12th. The full-day conference, Life Sciences in Scotland – Moving Forward Together: to...
The Scottish Bioresource Mapping Tool is a pioneering approach to mapping bioresource arisings which allows us to provide potential investors in the bioeconomy and circular economy uniquely detailed information on the 27 million tonnes of bioresources arising every year in Scotland which have been analysed so far. In 2015 the Scottish Industrial Biotechnology Development Group publish the ‘Biorefining Roadmap for Scotland’ which sets out the...