With top universities and successful businesses, a history of innovation and access to world leading research, it’s no surprise we have so much talent in Scotland. Here we recognise the individuals that are making significant contributions to Scotland’s innovation landscape and growth of the sector.
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INTRODUCING GRAEME MACLUSKIE At REPROCELL’s Centre for Predictive Drug Discovery and Research, Graeme leads the R&D team that create new and innovative ways of testing drugs using human fresh tissue. Graeme is credited with developing our phenotypic skin disease models...
SPECIALISM Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global health problem, accounts for ~700,000 deaths p/a, and expected to account for 10 M deaths annually by 2050. This is more than cancer and diabetes combined, unless radical interventions (e.g. mandatory rapid...
SPECIALISM ODx has a bold vision – to transform standards for care for people suffering from UTIs and reduce antimicrobial resistance – globally. To achieve this vision, ODx is developing and commercialising a test to help GPs and medical professionals...
SPECIALISM Med-tech and Pre-hospital care. MIME® has developed the first wireless, digital solution to support cabin crew in real-time when a medical incident occurs during commercial and business flights. The company harnesses the power of data, with potentially life-saving consequences....
SPECIALISM Bioinformatics and Genomics tools and technologies Livestock health, management and Agri-Tech informatics Distributed computing and Biostatistics Data driven policies and genomic-selection-based breeding programmes are at the forefront of the global challenge which is providing sustainable sources of food for...
Specialism Douglas has obtained an MSc in synthetic biology through the University of Edinburgh. While studying started working on a side project that resulted in him starting a company later called MiAlgae. MiAlgae takes the co-products of the whisky industry,...