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LSS Admin Flexible Training Programme Supports Employers' Costs

Taken from the Skills Development Scotland Website


Skills Development Scotland's (SDS's) 'Flexible Training Opportunities' programme gives smaller Scottish businesses (1-50 employees) the opportunity to apply for up to £500* towards employee training costs.

The types and levels of training that are eligible for support include:


  • Qualifications including individual units
  • M
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Added by LSS Admin on July 27, 2010 at 2:48pm — No Comments

Andrea Herb The Hebridean Seaweed Company Ltd won The Crown Estate Marine Business Award 2010

The winner of The Crown Estate Marine Business Award is the Hebridean Seaweed Company Ltd, based near Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.

The Hebridean Seaweed Company was formed in 2006 and is already one of the UK’s largest processors of seaweed for uses including soil enhancement and animal feed supplements.

The company takes a sustaina

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Added by Andrea Herb on July 22, 2010 at 11:48am — No Comments

Andrea Herb Aquapharm and AMRI enter into a novel marine chemistry collaboration

Aquapharm Biodiscovery, a leading marine biotechnology company based at the European Centre for Marine Biotechnology in Oban, announced it has signed a research agreement with Albany Molecular Research (NASDAQ: AMRI) to identify novel drug-like compounds and scaffolds with anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory activity from Aquapharm’s marine natural products library derived from its extensive collection of marine micro-organisms.

Under the terms of this agreement, drawing on it

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Added by Andrea Herb on July 8, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Gordon Struthers Construction signals next phase for BioQuarter development

FYI - Press Release about the Edinburgh BioQuarter

Building work commenced today, 28 June 2010, on Edinburgh BioQuarter’s £24m BioIncubator

Nicola Sturgeon, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, visited to oversee the official site sta

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Added by Gordon Struthers on June 28, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Posy Leech Centre for Health Science - Now live on facebook!

Become a fan of the Centre for Health Science on facebook and keep up to date with everything that is happening at the Centre!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inverness-United-Kingdom/Centre-for-Health-Science/138946196116116

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Added by Posy Leech on June 28, 2010 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Posy Leech Centre for Health Science Award 2010 - Nominations Now Open!

The Centre for Health Science Award 2010 is now open for nominations!

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Added by Posy Leech on June 25, 2010 at 9:52am — No Comments

Andrea Herb IP e-learning tool

I have come across this free e-learning product about Intellectual Property issues from a business perspective: IP Panorama

It is designed to help you utilise IP in your business strategy but also increases IP-awarenes of entrepreneurs.

The 12 modules, developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and other partners, cover a wide range of topics, including: trademarks, patents, copyright, licencing, e-commerce, IP audit

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Added by Andrea Herb on June 22, 2010 at 3:53pm — No Comments

Oonagh Loughran Would your company benefit from exploring new research collaborations?

Would your company benefit from exploring new research collaborations?

Could your company benefit from having a high quality PhD student to carry this research?

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Added by Oonagh Loughran on June 15, 2010 at 2:08pm — No Comments

Andrea Herb Telehealthcare Summit - 'Vision for Scottish Telehealthcare 2020' is now released

A national telehealthcare summit was held in the Scottish Highlands in May 2010 during which representatives from the Scottish public sector met with Scottish companies and multinationals to discuss the future of this fast evolving sector.
On the first day of the conference, an invited delegation gathered at Aldourie Castle, Loch Ness, to partici
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Added by Andrea Herb on June 15, 2010 at 10:40am — No Comments

Susan Sewell Ingenza Begin Working to The Principles of cGMP

In May 2010 work commenced in Ingenza Ltd’s first cGMP compatible laboratory. The laboratory, complete with state-of-the-art equipment, is the fourth addition to Ingenza’s already fully functional Biotechnology, Process Development and Fermentation laboratories.

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Added by Susan Sewell on June 11, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Oonagh Loughran Addressing the need for management teams for spin outs

When it comes to successful spin out companies and exploitation of new, cutting edge technologies, finding and being matched with the right business individuals who can exploit these opportunities to their full potential is key. The UK Innovation Forum (UKIF) is new way for research institutions and the business community to join up and maximise the combined potential of their technologies and business acumen.

The Forum exists to bring together business people who want

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Added by Oonagh Loughran on June 10, 2010 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Siobhan McDermit Life Sciences Scotland now on YouTube

Subscribe to the Life Sciences Scotland You Tube Channel and upload, share, and view videos relevant to the Life Sciences sector.

Videos currently featured include -

  • Synthetic Biology Debate at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
  • Craig Venter and his team make a historic announcement: creation of the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He exp
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Added by Siobhan McDermit on June 4, 2010 at 11:16am — 1 Comment

Fiona Godsman Keeping you Informed: Summary of the LSS Collaborations Workstream Meeting May 2010

This is a brief review of the LSS collaborations workstream meeting that took place in Dundee, 10th May 2010.



The purpose of this workstream group, composed of all the Scottish Life Sciences networking organisations (ABPI, BIA (S), BioDundee, Life Sciences Scotland Aberdeen, Nexxus, Scottish Academic Health Sciences
Collaboration (SAHSC), Scottish Bioinformatics For

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Added by Fiona Godsman on June 4, 2010 at 10:34am — No Comments

Oonagh Loughran Screening Drug Drivers SBRI Competition

Drug driving is an increasing problem on UK roads. Use of an oral fluid drug screening device would significantly assist the detection of drug drivers by the police. The Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) and the Technology Strategy Board are launching a SBRI competition to fund development work such a device. The aim of this competition is to identify drug detection technologies capable of detecting very low concentrations (ng/ml) of drugs and their active metabolites in oral fl… Continue

Added by Oonagh Loughran on June 3, 2010 at 4:20pm — No Comments

Gordon Struthers Nominations for new members of LiSAB Board

The nominations committee of the Scottish Life Sciences Advisory Board (LiSAB) are seeking expressions of interest for up to 4 new members of the Board. With LiSAB membership rotating, membership will be for up to 3 years with a commitment of 4 meetings each year.


LiSAB was established in February 200… Continue

Added by Gordon Struthers on June 3, 2010 at 11:59am — No Comments

Gordon Struthers New Twitter account @lsscotland

The new Life Sciences Twitter feed is now up and running. You can follow us @lsscotland for those of you who are signed up to twitter, for other we have added a new bar on the left hand side of this site to show all our new 'tweets' or blogs.

Twitter gives us an opportunity to send out our communications in another form. We have linked up the RSS news feed and events feed from this website so that whenever something

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Added by Gordon Struthers on May 27, 2010 at 11:50am — No Comments

Garry Ewing Life Sciences edition of the TalentScotland magazine

Scotland has much to offer in the life sciences sector, as well as being an exceptionally interesting place to live and work. TalentScotland can help you explore the benefits of both living and working in Scotland, as well as seek job opportunities in the life sciences industry.

TalentScotland magazine has changed in 2010. Instead of a quarterly magazine we're creating sector specific magazines.

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Added by Garry Ewing on May 14, 2010 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Fiona Godsman ERBI and London Biotechnology Network are merging, what impact will that have on Scotland?

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Added by Fiona Godsman on April 30, 2010 at 12:37pm — No Comments

Nicolas Peyret Follow me @ Bio 2010

I will be tweeting at BIO 2010 for Life Sciences Scotland, you will be able to see my posts on the twitter feed down the left hand side of the LSScommunity site or you can follow me using Twitter @lsscotland.

If you want to meet me in person i will be organising the Synthetic Biology session on Monday 3rd, between 2.00 - 3.30 pm in room s405B.

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Added by Nicolas Peyret on April 26, 2010 at 2:23pm — No Comments

Gordon Struthers Scotland at BIO 2010

Just to keep everyone up to date with everything that's planned at BIO 2010 this year.

Scottish Stand

Scotland will have its own stand at BIO 2010 operated by Scottish Development International (SDI) with plenty of information about everything happening in Scotland. Everyone is welcome to come along and speak to one of the SDI representative or another Scottish company at the stand. There is also a casual seating area fo

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Added by Gordon Struthers on April 19, 2010 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

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