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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.
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
Growing Scotland's life sciences sector
Life sciences firms will gain direct access to investors, healthcare networks and commercial partners in the United States through a new Scotland-Massachusetts partnership.
The ‘Scotland-Massachusetts Bio-Bridge’ will bring business leaders from Massachusetts to Scotland to explore investment and collaboration opportunities.
Scotland has the science but it needs to join the dots
As Scotland’s life sciences community prepares to gather in Glasgow for Bio Now: Bio Insight 2026 Conference, there is much to celebrate. Scotland has world-class research, exceptional universities, a strong pipeline of scientific talent and a growing community of innovative businesses.
Source: The Scotsman
Life Sciences Accommodation Programme
Scottish Enterprise has launched a £35.3 million Life Sciences Accommodation Programme (LSAP) which aims to address this – supporting with new and refurbished spaces, where market conditions make development difficult.
The Life Sciences Accommodation Programme (LSAP) has been designed to help address short to medium-term gaps and support commercially viable developments - including the construction and fit-out of new life sciences laboratory and manufacturing spaces in Scotland.
Circulating long RNA for functional profiling of cancer patients
Wobble Genomics has just demonstrated that their circulating long RNA diagnostic platform has achieved a limit of detection which surpasses the current industry leader, Personalis, by more than an order of magnitude.
Wobble Genomics has developed a platform that detects circulating long RNA (clRNA), full-length RNA molecules recovered from a single blood draw, to profile how a patient's tumour is behaving at the resolution of drug-binding sites.
Mid-sized scale-up space “essential” to sustain Scotland’s life sciences sector
New data has revealed that a shortage of specialist laboratory and manufacturing space could slow the growth of Scotland’s life sciences sector - an industry set to surge to £25bn by 2035.
The report, produced by CBRE on behalf of Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Government, analysed supply and demand for laboratory, office and manufacturing space within Scottish Enterprise’s geographical area, primarily in eastern, central and parts of southern Scotland. .
Source: Insider
Innovation unlocked by Scotland's aligned national ecosystem
Scotland combines world-class research and clinical excellence with international connectivity and access to a skilled workforce, often with strong talent retention levels which I believe is one of Scotland’s most underappreciated strengths, says Mark Hanna
Source: The Scotsman