First Minister John Swinney visits Ingenza to highlight Scotland’s economic growth
Ingenza, a world-leading protein CRDMO welcomed Scotland’s First Minister, John Swinney to the company’s inGenius® Building in Midlothian Science Zone, where he chose to announce his legislative agenda for his Programme for Government.
The First Minister spent time with Ingenza colleagues touring the state-of-the-art, multi-million-pound premises, based at Edinburgh Technopole, a prime site of the Pioneer Group. The inGenius® Facility is allowing the Scottish Biotech trailblazer to greatly increase capacity across all service areas, strengthening the company’s ability to deliver flexible, scalable biomanufacturing solutions to its growing customer base.
The First Minister described Ingenza as “a company at the heart of Scotland’s economic possibilities and opportunities” and praised the company as a “highly sophisticated research organisation capable of tackling academic university research and translating it into commercial applications.”
“It was wonderful to welcome Mr Swinney to Ingenza where we could show him first hand how we are accelerating the delivery of new therapeutics and reducing carbon emissions for our global customer base.”
The First Minister was particularly enthused to hear that Ingenza are a proud employer of Life Science Apprenticeships and have supported many employees from initial apprenticeships to further prestigious qualifications including doctorates.
“We are hugely proud of Ingenza’s diverse, multi-national team.
”Working closely with our partners at The Scottish Government and The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has enabled us to accelerate the development of young people within our workforce and really propel their careers.”
“Welcoming Scotland’s First Minister to Ingenza showcases our ability to deliver a world-class end-to-end service from our HQ here in Scotland.
”Our customers can truly benefit from the inGenius® Building delivering fully integrated development and production of cGMP clinical material.
”The First Minister’s visit to Ingenza emphasises the importance of retaining such cutting-edge capabilities here in Scotland.”
Ingenza is an engineering biology company based at Edinburgh Technopole, a prime site of the Pioneer Group in Midlothian Science Zone, with an extensive and unique range of proprietary enabling technologies in microbial strain and mammalian cell-line engineering, protein production, fermentation and bioprocess development.
For further information, please contact:
Edinburgh Technopole
Milton Bridge
Penicuik
Midlothian, EH26 0BB
Site Director: Martin Bissell
T: +44 (0)131 445 8600