Sponsorship

By sponsoring Scotland’s Life Sciences Conference & Awards, you will contribute to Scotland’s globally renowned life sciences sector and connect with a highly influential audience.

The Awards are dedicated to celebrating industry achievements, fostering development, and promoting growth. Your sponsorship ensures these goals are met.

This year, we are introducing Conference Sponsorship opportunities for those interested in showcasing their company and information during our day event. We appreciate our sponsors’ support and value partnerships that recognize the importance of industry collaboration.

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Sponsorship opportunities still available Please contact: jasmine.chambers@speak.co.uk

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Sponsorship opportunities still available Please contact: jasmine.chambers@speak.co.uk

CONFIRMED SPONSORS

CPI

Silver Sponsor

CPI is a pioneering innovation catalyst that accelerates the development, scale-up and commercialisation of deep tech and sustainable manufacturing solutions.

Alongside partners in industry, government and academia, CPI has created the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Glasgow to develop, prove and commercialise disruptive technologies for the pharmaceutical industry. We operate a model focused around Grand Challenges where the pharmaceutical industry and its supply chain work together to identify and overcome major industry hurdles, aiming to reduce the time, resources and cost of medicines manufacturing, to ultimately deliver benefits to patients.

Find out more: www.uk-cpi.com

SGS Vitrology

SGS Vitrology

Silver Sponsor

SGS Vitrology Limited was founded in 2007 and acquired by SGS in May 2012. The site provides safety testing services of biologics, with a strong focus on quality of service and scientific ability. Our team of experienced scientists have over 20+ years’ experience providing a comprehensive range of GMP, FDA, EP, ICH compliant validated assays. As a world leader in biopharmaceutical testing services, SGS Vitrology offer you a complete range of GLP/GMP biologics safety testing, including virology, cellular and molecular biology, as well as microbiology and electron microscopy.

We pay special attention to our customers’ turnaround time requirements and partner that with best-in-class customer service and communication. As a result, we help you to ensure product safety and meet your regulatory requirements, therefore adding value to your business by providing reliability, high quality & compliant GMP validated assays, scientific expertise, and pro-active communication with direct access to your dedicated project management team and scientists.

SGS Vitrology has decades of experience characterizing cell banks and virus seeds used in the manufacture of gene therapy vectors, vaccines, and recombinant proteins. We have worked with clients using a range of cell lines (e.g. CHO, HEK293, Sp2/0, Hi5, Sf9, MDCK, Hybridoma) and viral vectors (e.g. Adeno, AAV, Lentivirus, Vaccinia).

A summary of our services are as follows:

Cell Bank and Virus Seed Characterisation per the major compendia, regulatory and ICH guidelines
Raw material and Bulk Harvest testing
Drug Substance and Final Product testing
Custom Development/Validation of assays including new or method transfers.

Find out more: www.sgs.com/biosafety

Symbiosis

Silver Sponsor

Symbiosis is a global, client-focused, contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) offering GMP aseptic manufacture for clinical trials through to commercial supply. Utilising batch strategies closely aligned with the latest regulatory frameworks such as Annex 1, Symbiosis empowers drug developers to meet their project milestones through rapid access to fill-finish slots. Our purpose-built, FDA-inspected and MHRA-licensed manufacturing suites are designed to accommodate cytotoxic APIs and up to BSL-2. Working with liquid and lyophilised formulations, our expert in-house team has over ten years of experience taking a wide range of modalities from drug substance to QP release e.g. mAbs, vaccines, small molecules, ADCs, ATMPs, etc.

As trusted partners, Symbiosis are dedicated to supporting our clients facilitate safe, life-saving injectable drug therapies, without delay.

Find out.more: symbiosis-pharma.com

Bouygues Energies & Services

Business Leadership Award Sponsor

Bouygues Energies & Services (BYES) is a Design & Build contractor and integrator, specialising in critical, highly regulated, and controlled environments such as clean rooms for biopharma and tech laboratories. With offices in Scotland and Manchester, BYES supports projects across the UK. Their multi-disciplinary team offers turnkey solutions, handling everything in-house from planning and architecture to project management, validation, and engineering. Part of the global Bouygues group, with an annual turnover of €55bn, BYES has a strong focus on Life Sciences and Biotech in their strategic business plan.

Find out more: www.bouygues-es.co.uk/industry

SRG

Rising Stars: Extraordinary Talent Award Sponsor

Industry Leaders in Life Science, Engineering and Clinical Recruitment

As a global STEM network, we apply our specialist industry knowledge to the full spectrum of roles and talent solutions. We recruit across the product life cycle, from scientific research and technology, clinical trials, manufacturing, and engineering disciplines to market access. We have over 30 years of experience in taking projects from discovery to completion and developing bespoke solutions to help unlock new ways of working and thinking.

Find out more: www.srgtalent.com

T-SQUARED

Outstanding Skills Development Award Sponsor

Formed in 2003 here in Scotland, T-SQUARED design, build, validate and maintain highly specialised facilities containing cleanrooms, controlled environments, laboratories and containment suites.

Recent highlights include the fast-track design and build of the new Upperton Pharma Solutions facility which won the UK Large Pharma Project of the Year award for 2024.

Working closely with both start-up companies and established international organisations, our in-house team of design, construction, maintenance and validation professionals enable T-SQUARED to provide long-term support to our clients, from the early stages of project development through the full facility design process to construction and operational support; crucially providing accurate design, commercial and timescale projections from the earliest stages of engagement.

Our fully integrated, in-house solution allows us to take full responsibility for a project and accelerate the delivery of specialist, complex facilities in record time, using modular and off-site techniques.

T-SQUARED has offices throughout the UK and therefore can offer a consistent service across the UK including commissioning, qualification and validation services, and 24/7/365 specialist technical services support.

Find out more: tsquared.co.uk

Piramal

Innovation – Health Technology Award Sponsor

Piramal Healthcare UK Ltd has been operating in Grangemouth since 2004 and offers Pharmaceutical Development, Manufacturing and Testing.

Piramal Grangemouth is a global leader in the development and manufacture of novel Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) which are a class of biopharmaceutical drugs designed as a targeted therapy for serious medical conditions, with wide application as a treatment option in various cancers.

In February 2024 the Piramal site celebrated MHRA regulatory approval and first GMP batch manufacture at their new purpose-built state of the art ADC manufacturing and testing facility. This new facility provides additional capacity and supports scale up of existing and new medicinal products as they progress through clinical development and into routine patient supply.

Find out more: www.piramalpharmasolutions.com

Burness Paull

Innovation Collaboration Award Sponsor

Burness Paull is an independent commercial law firm that works with leading organisations across the UK and internationally. The firm employs more than 700 people, including 90 partners, across its offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Find out more: www.burnesspaull.com

Marks & Clerk

Marks & Clerk

Innovation Pharma Services and Drug Discovery Award Sponsor

Marks & Clerk is a full service, specialist intellectual property (IP) firm, offering services across the whole breadth of IP including patents, trademarks, designs, copyright, and other unregistered rights, as well as IP-based agreements, arbitration and litigation.

Our team of 300 IP practitioners enjoys being able to support clients on their IP journey from the inception of an idea, to its commercialisation, and, if necessary, its defence. We work with our clients to develop an IP strategy that works for their business plan, and then to implement that plan.

The main strengths of the M&C team are depth, breadth and vast collective experience in working with clients. Our team is one of the largest teams in Europe, meaning we have an unrivalled pool of resources and knowledge from which to choose and we have experts across the entire technology spectrum. Our European team is based in offices across the UK (five offices in England and three offices in Scotland) and Luxembourg. Our European team has strong links to our international offices based in Canada (Toronto and Ottawa) and across Asia (Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia).

Our experts work together with clients, combining their knowledge as they collaborate on innovations to secure the optimum suite of IP protection for the client. We excel within the world of IP through being able to pull together a team of attorneys whose expertise exactly meets your needs, regardless of how new or rare the technology.

Find out more: www.marks-clerk.com

The Bank

The Scottish National Investment Bank

Lifetime Achievement Award Category Sponsor

The Scottish National Investment Bank is Scotland’s first development investment bank. The Bank is a mission-led, impact investor, focussed on delivering both commercial returns and mission impacts with its investments.

Investing patient debt or equity in business and projects connected to Scotland to deliver long term societal and economic benefits. The Bank’s missions are:

Net zero: Address the climate crisis, through growing a fair and sustainable economy
Innovation: Scale up innovation and technology, for a more competitive and productive economy
Place: Transform communities, making them places where everyone thrives

Find out more: www.thebank.scot

PCI

Networking Lunch Sponsor

PCI is a leading global CDMO, providing clients with integrated end-to-end drug development, manufacturing and packaging capabilities that increase their products’ speed to market and opportunities for commercial success. PCI brings proven experience that comes with more than 90 successful product launches each year and over five decades in the healthcare services business. We currently have 30 sites across seven countries (Australia, Canada, U.S., Ireland, UK, Germany and Spain) and over 4,300 employees that work to bring life-changing therapies to patients. Leading technology and continued investment enable us to address global drug development needs throughout the entire product life cycle – from manufacturing capabilities through the clinical trial supply chain and into commercialisation. Our clients view us as an extension of their business and a collaborative partner with the shared goal of improving patients’ lives.

Find out more: pci.com

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Sponsorship opportunities still available Please contact: jasmine.chambers@speak.co.uk

Sponsorship opportunities still available Please contact: jasmine.chambers@speak.co.uk

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