Fifty-one weeks of the year, the businesses based at BioCity are busy tackling global environmental and health challenges. But for one week only, they tackled a different type of challenge.The competition, organised by BioCity, asked companies to grow their own Christmas tree and create a...
A record 139 applications were received from across Scotland’s Higher Education Institutions reinforcing the message that the country’s universities remain a bedrock of innovation for early-stage ideas and projects that have the potential to become viable businesses More projects than ever before will benefit...
BioCity Group has today announced that its founding CEO, Dr Glenn Crocker, MBE, will be stepping down at the end of the year and taking up the role of Chairman. Dr Crocker has been CEO of BioCity since June 2003 and has taken it from a...
Scottish-based biotech business Scot Bio has raised more than £2m in one of the largest private investment funding rounds seen in Scotland so far this year.The business, based at BioCity Glasgow, has raised the cash in a follow-on deal with Scottish investment syndicate Kelvin Capital, Investing...
A state-of-the-art pharmaceutical stability storage facility has opened at MediCity, Glasgow – the first of its kind in Scotland.The facility, operated by Roylance Stability Storage Limited, includes new state-of-the-art, large temperature and humidity controlled walk-in chambers to store products including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, vaccines and medical...
BioAscent Discovery Limited’s COO, Dr Sylviane Boucharens, has been included in the BioBeat 2018 list of 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness. Her nomination follows an incredibly successful year in which she has spearheaded the company’s expansion to become a fully integrated drug discovery CRO.Co-founded...
Report celebrates outstanding female leaders in UK healthcare businessCAMBRIDGE, UK – 1 NOVEMBER 2018 – A new report released today unveils 50 female leaders in healthcare business in the UK. Produced by BioBeat, 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2018 emphasises the current role of...
Greater collaboration and trade opportunities will be the focus of an international trade mission taking place later this month.The City of Mentor, in Northeast Ohio, will host a delegation of Midlands Life Science companies from October 22 to October 24. This will help promote trade...
BioCity, Alderley Park based Cresset, innovative provider of software and contract research services for small molecule discovery and design, is pleased to announce that Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute (CRUK MI), has licensed Flare for fresh insights into structure-based drug design. “Putting easy-to use and visually...
Cresset, innovative provider of software and contract research services for small molecule discovery and design, and Elixir Software, provider of real-time workflow tracking applications, have formed an alliance whereby the combination of their technologies will form the basis of a new groundbreaking application, which will radically...