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Three year contract

BioCity advises Scotland’s life sciences start-ups

Scotland BioCity team
BioCity team ready to offer advice   Life sciences incubator, BioCity, has won a contract tendered by Scottish Enterprise to provide specialist support and advice to all its life scienceRead More

Platinum buys drugs firm

LifeScan sold to private equity firm in $2.1bn deal

Johnson & Johnson has confirmed the sale of its LifeScan business for $2.1 billion ..

Overseas promotion for sector

Life sciences making moves on global stage

Scottish life sciences company AvantiCell Science is partnering medical centres in South-East Asia in a collaboration which could open new global markets with major drug companies. The move comes asRead More

Double boost for enterprise

EA status lifts BioCity; SMEs see RSA benefit

Diane Harbison BioCity
BioCity Scotland expects a huge boost after being designated a new Enterprise Area.

Crucial backing for client's product

Revenue boost for Glasgow bioscience firm Collagen

Stewart White Collagen YouTube
Glasgow drugs research and development company Collagen Solutions is expecting a boost to revenues after a breakthrough for a client in the US.. READ MORE

Bioscience company deal

Archangel and SIB exit CXR as Dundee firm sold

CXR Biosciences, the Dundee-based investigative and exploratory toxicology business, has been sold to Concept Life Sciences. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, is likely to mean a positive return forRead More

Incubator's latest tenant

Firm developing diagnosis device opts for BioCity

Diane Harbison BioCity
A company developing a device to help in the diagnosis of diseases is the latest tenant at the BioCity Scotland incubator on eastern edge of Glasgow. The move comes after Relitect securedRead More

Unique partnership created

Collaborative hub for life sciences companies

Diane Harbison BioCity
Young life sciences companies are to be given an opportunity for greater collaboration when a unique Innovation Hub is launched later this month. It will bring researchers and commercial enterprises togetherRead More

Top drugs company relocates to Scotland

Biotech firm quits south for Dundee’s life sciences cluster

(Updated) Dundee’s growing reputation as a centre of excellence in life sciences has persuaded a company from Cambridgeshire to relocate its operations to the town. Cellexus said it was influencedRead More

Symbiosis hires in US to support growth

STIRLING-based contract manufacturing business Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services has responded to a surge in funding for biotech firms in the US by appointing a business development manager based on the eastRead More