MEDICA 2019 Nov 18 – Nov 21, 2019 Messe Dusseldorf, Germany Scottish Development International will once again be organising a Scottish Pavilion at MEDICA, the world’s largest and most prestigious medical technology and equipment show (www.medica.de). A world-renowned leading medical products and services show, MEDICA offers the opportunity to promote your products and services for export to an international audience and meet customers and qualified...
Working with Catalonia Trade and Investment (ACCIÓ), Scottish Enterprise (SE) is investing at least £1 million to fund international collaborations that lead to new products, services or processes in the areas of Healthcare, manufacturing 4.0 and mobility. This is an exciting opportunity for Scottish healthcare companies of all sizes looking to develop world class innovations, linking them with leading players in Catalonia: not just facilitating...
The University of Dundee has been rated among the world’s best universities in terms of the impact of its scientific research in the 2019 CWTS Leiden Rankings. The Leiden rankings are based on research publications data and offer important insights into the scientific performance of nearly 1000 major universities worldwide. They place Dundee at 15th in the world for the highest proportion of highly cited publications....
Researchers from Heriot-Watt University’s Natantis team are developing an innovative device that could revolutionise the way blood samples are prepared for use in cancer diagnosis. The Natantis team, which hopes to spin-out into a commercial venture by 2020, has created the CNAsafe device to extract cell-free nucleic acids (cfNA) from whole blood. The demand for the type of testing this facilitates – known as liquid...
Congratulations to Terumo Aortic who won the Life Sciences Company of the Year Award at this year’s ‘Made in Scotland Awards’ on May 9th. Terumo Aortic has developed a comprehensive portfolio of products manufactured in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. The business is composed of the combination of Renfrewshire-based Vascutek with Bolton Medical, both of which are subsidiaries of the Terumo Corporation of Japan. Read more about Vaskutek...
Biotangents to accelerate roll out of livestock disease diagnostic product Biotangents, a Scottish medical diagnostics business, has secured £1.5m of new investment following the completion of a second fundraising round. Led by the investment syndicate Kelvin Capital, and with Scottish Investment Bank participation, the oversubscribed funding round will support the continued commercial development of Biotangents’ diagnostic platform technology which is used to quickly detect infectious...