SGS played a pivotal role during the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting with vaccine early development, scale-up and mass production role out in 2021-22. This ensured our society, our nation, and the entire world population was fast tracked to receive ground-breaking vaccine and protection, without delay to...
The 21st BioDundee International Conference, accompanying exhibition and networking opportunity, will take place virtually on Tuesday 17th of May, 2022 and is free to attend. The BioDundee conference has been running for two decades and is the longest-running and most established event of its kind in Scotland. The...
I've been in my current role as Key Sector Manager for Life and Chemical Sciences at SDS for almost a year and a half and it would be fair to say that period has been an extraordinary time. But obstacles and crisis situations such as the...
We regret to have to announce the postponement of this year's Scottish Life Sciences Awards. We have been following very closely the advice of the UK Government and World Health Organisation and, although this action possibly goes further than the current advice, we feel we must...
Prepared Precaution Statement to Delegates Scotland’s Life Sciences Dinner and Annual Award 2020 Covid-19 Precaution Statement. We have no plans to cancel Scotland’s Life Sciences Dinner and Annual Award 2020 on Thursday 19th March 2020 at this stage. We will continue to monitor and act on advice from...
Dave Tudor, chair of the Life Sciences Scotland Industry Leadership Group and newly-appointed managing director of the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre, marks a very significant year for life sciences in Scotland. I must be getting old – they say the years pass by more quickly as...
Piramal Pharma Solutions may not be known to everyone in the Scottish Life Science Community but we form part of a long history of chemical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing in Grangemouth. Who are we? We are a site of approximately 170 staff who form part of a...
Harper VanSteenhouse, General Manager, BioClavis BioClavis –and sister company BioSpyder-- was first attracted to setting up in Glasgow because of the scale and quality of clinical expertise and samples that we would be able to access. So we set up in the University of Glasgow’s Clinical...
Chartered (UK) and European Trade Mark Attorney for Marks & Clerk LLP, Jason Chester discusses. Within all fields of technology, intellectual property (IP) rights protect innovation and provide the competitive advantage required to build value and reputation. The significant time and expense required to bring Scotland’s life...
What are the exciting opportunities for machine learning in health? James Cameron, Head of Health and Life Sciences at Highlands and Islands Enterprise, blogs about a new project that opens up possibilities in early bowel cancer diagnosis. Much has been said and written about the need...