BioAscent has been shortlisted in the Business Leadership and the Rising Stars categories at this year’s Scottish Life Sciences Awards. The Business Leadership Award recognises a management team that has significantly advanced its business. BioAscent’s management team has transformed the business bringing in chemistry and biology...
BioCity based Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) has been named best supplier in the ‘Best Cost Saving Initiative’ category at the prestigious ‘Excellent Supplier and Contractor Event 2019’ held by Newcastle University. Only seven awards are made in a variety of categories and no other laboratory...
BioCity, Glasgow based Scot Bio, who has developed a process for making natural blue and green food colourings, has bolstered its board with a trio of appointments. Scot Bio, which is based in the BioCity incubator on the outskirts of Glasgow, has added former Robert Wiseman Dairies...
BioCity, Glasgow based Jumpstart has been acquired by Visiativ Group which will see its current shareholders exit the business. Chairman Jim Faulds (pictured), who was introduced by BGF’s talent network and has provided strategic guidance to the Edinburgh-based company, will step down from the board. BGF...
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...
[gallery ids="17871,17870"] Fledgling businesses shared £1 million in funding from partner organisations following the latest Scottish EDGE pitching competition. Twenty firms pitched their ideas live at Scottish EDGE to a panel of business heavyweights made up of: Jim McColl of Clyde Blowers, Steve Dunlop of Scottish Enterprise,...
BioCity, Glasgow based BDD Pharma secures license agreement with top pharma company for timed-release OralogiK™ technology BDD Pharma today announced that it has signed an agreement to license OralogiK™, its timed drug delivery technology, to Novartis Pharma AG for the development of a new product containing an undisclosed...
Accelerator programme graduate, BioCity, Glasgow based novosound has raised £1.5m in a seed investment round. The winner of last year's Converge Challenge competition, novosound will use the money to expand its team and bring its ultrasound sensors to the market. The bulk of the cash has been supplied...
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN – DEADLINE 2 MAY The Unlocking Ambition Challenge will invest in a group of up to 20 early stage entrepreneurs who will be chosen, mentored and led by some of Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs. They’re looking for early-stage, high-potential entrepreneurs, innovators, academics and...