Life Sciences

We offer wide ranging support to the life sciences industry to help develop world class businesses.

Latest news

Scottish Launch of London 2012 Business Network: 5 September 2008; Over 200 business people from all sectors and scales of business gathered at yesterday’s Scottish Launch of the London 2012 Business Network to hear how Scottish businesses could benefit from opportunities associated with the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
Translational Medicine Research Initiative highlighted as a key development of last year: 28 August 2008; 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.
BIA Scotland golf event – 4 September, Alyth: 18 August 2008; Following the success of the first BIA Scotland Golf Event of 2008, a second event will take place at Glenisla Golf Club, Alyth.
Applications of Information Visualisation in Bioinformatics – 15 September, Edinburgh: 18 August 2008; The objective of this workshop is to bring together end users and developers in microarray and genomics applications.
Covidien acquires Cardiodigital’s US arm: 18 August 2008; Covidien, a leading global supplier of healthcare products, has acquired technology assets from CardioDigital Inc, whose parent company – CardioDigital Ltd – is based in Edinburgh.
ProStrakan expands licensing deal to US: 18 August 2008; ProStrakan and Orexo have extended their existing European licensing agreement for Rapinyl™ (Abstral®), for breakthrough cancer pain, to include North America.

Leading the world in life science innovation

Scotland’s positive, enterprising culture and its supportive business and legislative environment have combined to create a thriving, dynamic and progressive life sciences industry. Our reputation in the life sciences sector is characterised by a series of groundbreaking advances from the discovery of antibiotics to the development of Dolly the sheep.

Scotland continues to invest in its life science knowledge base, underpinning the thriving commercial sector. There is a vibrant life sciences community and a real spirit of collaboration in Scotland. The whole of Scotland’s life sciences industry – a key sector in the Scottish economy - is behind a fully integrated national strategy.