The organisers are delighted to announce the finalists for the 2020 Scotland’s Life Sciences Awards. Three finalists have made the shortlist in each of seven categories, with the winners to be announced on the night of the Awards, on 19 March at the Hilton, Glasgow. The finalists are as follows: Business Leadership Award, sponsored by Opportunity North East The management team at BioAscent Discovery Ltd...
Epidarex’s therapeutic discovery engine will identify innovative early stage assets, providing hands-on scientific support and funding to drive drug discovery projects Exeed will mould and de-risk opportunities, making them ready for company creation and Series A investment Co-founder Dr. Henning Steinhagen appointed as CEO Epidarex Capital, a leading transatlantic venture fund, today announced the launch of its therapeutic discovery engine, Epidarex Exeed Ltd. (Exeed). Focussed...
BioCity, the pioneering life science incubator and business collective has released its biennial publication, the UK Life Science Start-Up Report, an in-depth analysis of emerging businesses within the life sciences across the UK. The report has collected, analysed and interpreted data for nearly a decade and a half; and is a key publication for the life science industry. The report, authored by BioCity Chairman and...
Fluidic Analytics’ diffusional sizing technology has been influential in a recent study that investigates protein binding and self-assembly in Alzheimer’s disease. This was will presented by Professor Sara Linse of Lund University, Sweden, during the FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award plenary lecture at FEBS 2019, Krakow, Poland (Sunday 7th July). Her work on the mechanism of amyloid β aggregation and the role of inhibitors demonstrates...
Scotland has ambitions to increase turnover in Life Sciences to £8bn by 2025. To achieve this, a key enabler for this ambition will be the extent to which the sectors embrace the digital revolution and the Industry 4.0 philosophy. The Sustainable Production Group, part of the wider Life Sciences Scotland Strategy, developed a digital workshop, which saw the coming together of members of the life...
The winners of Scottish EDGE Round 14 have been announced with designer sustainable wooden bag manufacturer, Roccio, taking the inaugural Circular Economy EDGE Award. Top Higgs EDGE Award of £125,000 given to crop production refiner, Myconourish Glasgow teenager who founded his business while battling cancer takes five-figure award in Young EDGE category Sixth year pupil takes five figure sum in Wild Card EDGE for life-saving bagpipe...