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Ingenza welcomes Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal
Ingenza, a world leader in protein engineering, had the great honour and privilege to welcome Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to Ingenza and officially open its facility, The inGenius® Building.
The Princess Royal met with key Ingenza colleagues and long-term collaborators as she toured the state-of-the-art, multimillion-pound facility located on Pioneer Group’s Edinburgh Technopole site, a world-leading cluster of research excellence in animal health and life sciences.
Scottish businesses to benefit from £500,000 support to boost trade
Scottish businesses are set to benefit from £500,000 of government support for a programme of trade missions to help them grow exports and build global partnerships.
The four sectors that have been identified as priorities for growth are energy, life sciences, technology and digital services, and food and drink.
New sheep model aids development of targeted cancer therapy
Large animal model could help bridge the gap between lab studies and clinical trials of treatments delivered directly into tumours.
A sheep model of lung cancer could provide a new platform for developing and testing treatments delivered directly into tumours, researchers have shown.
Scientists from the Roslin Institute, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Moredun Research Institute used a lung tumour of sheep, ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA), to develop image-guided techniques for delivering anti-cancer drugs such as cisplatin directly into lung tumours.
More tea? How Scotland's crops of the future could be set to change
Could Scotland become a major food-producing region for Europe as the climate changes?
Professor Wayne Powell, the principal and Chief Executive of Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) contributed to this BBC News article exploring what a changing climate could mean for Scotland’s agricultural future.
Source: BBC News
SRUC academics take Queen Elizabeth Prize success to Washington DC
SRUC academics took part in a prestigious international education exchange in Washington DC last week, following the institution’s third Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education and its longstanding research collaboration with the United States.
Mike Coffey, Professor of Livestock Informatics and PhD student Abby Wells visited Washington DC from 5-9 October as part of the Queen Elizabeth Prizes for Education: USA Exchange, joining representatives from eight UK universities and colleges that have previously won the prize.
SRUC joins £3.75m research programme to tackle mosquito and midge-borne diseases
SRUC is joining a major four-year research programme to improve the UK’s preparedness for mosquito and midge-borne diseases affecting people, livestock and wildlife.
The £3.75 million programme, PAMEC (Preparing for and mitigating the impacts of environmental change on Dipteran-borne disease in the UK), is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) as part of a £20 million interdisciplinary research fund to tackle epidemic threats.
Edinburgh highlighted as investors broaden outlook
In a ranking by research consultancy ING of 40 locations, Edinburgh is fifth while Glasgow is in the top 15. Commissioned by construction and civil engineering company McLaughlin & Harvey, it finds that the future of UK life sciences development could expand beyond the best-known towns and cities as technology changes the market and factors such as access to housing, talent, infrastructure and favourable planning conditions become increasingly important.
Source: Daily Business
Edinburgh leads Scotland in life sciences rankings
Edinburgh has been ranked as the UK’s fifth most promising location for future life sciences development, emerging as Scotland’s highest-rated city in a new study that suggests the industry’s next phase of growth could increasingly take place beyond the “Golden Triangle” of London, Oxford and Cambridge.
Source: The Herald
MiAlgae lands £2.5 million for Grangemouth plant
Scottish biotech company MiAlgae has secured a £2.5m investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank. This funding is allocated to support the company’s new commercial-scale production facility located in Grangemouth, with the announcement made on 6 October 2026.
Source: Scottish Business News
Why Scotland must address the key scale-up challenges
Dr Yvonne Davies says we are good at creating start-ups but could do more to help companies take the next big step
Scotland has so much to celebrate when it comes to entrepreneurship across multiple sectors. Within industry, universities, business support networks and innovation centres up and down the land, we are producing exciting technologies and world-class science along with ambitious founders.
Source: The Scotsman