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- Translational Medicine Research Initiative highlighted as a key development of last year
- The £15 million funding for 39 medical research projects through the Translational Medicine Research Initiative has been highlighted as one of our key developments in 2007-2008.
- 28 August 2008
- BIA Scotland golf event – 4 September, Alyth
- Following the success of the first BIA Scotland Golf Event of 2008, a second event will take place at Glenisla Golf Club, Alyth.
- 18 August 2008
- Applications of Information Visualisation in Bioinformatics – 15 September, Edinburgh
- The objective of this workshop is to bring together end users and developers in microarray and genomics applications.
- 18 August 2008
- Covidien acquires Cardiodigital’s US arm
- Covidien, a leading global supplier of healthcare products, has acquired technology assets from CardioDigital Inc, whose parent company – CardioDigital Ltd – is based in Edinburgh.
- 18 August 2008
- ProStrakan expands licensing deal to US
- ProStrakan and Orexo have extended their existing European licensing agreement for Rapinyl™ (Abstral®), for breakthrough cancer pain, to include North America.
- 18 August 2008
- West and East collaborate to enhance life science status
- Nexxus, the West of Scotland BioScience Network has secured funding to continue its activities for a further three years in the West of Scotland.
- 18 August 2008
- Pilot opportunity for medical technologies
- The BioIndustry Association (BIA) and Medical Devices in Scotland (MDiS) are looking for technologies for a pilot initiative between NHS Scotland and the Scottish life sciences sector.
- 18 August 2008
- Phage conference sparks talk of new trade body
- The first international phage biotechnology conference, which was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, is expected to lead to the formation of an International Phage Society and trade body.
- 18 August 2008
- Pharmaceutical collaboration attracts £10.8m
- The University of Dundee and the Medical Research Council (MRC) have announced new funding of almost £11 million from a consortium of pharmaceutical companies for the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT), a groundbreaking collaboration that aims to attack major global diseases.
- 18 August 2008
- Royal Medal for Sir David Lane
- Sir David Lane has been presented with a prestigious Royal Medal by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.
- 18 August 2008