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companies that have a wide range of capabilities from clean rooms, engineering and lab services to medical supplies, packaging and waste treatment. Our country offers a dynamic, industry-led
support network, which includes R&D centres of excellence, product design centres and specialist research pools. Just a few examples of med-tech research coming from Scotland’s educational institutions include: n Strathclyde Institute of Medical Devices – Development hub offering the only UK postdoctoral training course in medical technologies.
n Institute for Medical Science and Technology (IMSaT) – GE’s first European centre of Excellence for Pre-Clinical Image-Guided Interventions and Surgery. R&D in minimally invasive surgery, laser imaging & therapy, medical robotics, regenerative medicine & drug delivery.
n Cuschieri Skills Centre – University of Dundee – Interventional human anatomy, virtual reality simulation, operating theatre, laparoscopic training laboratories and surgical training. The CSC is one of Europe’s most advanced centres of excellence for teaching and training surgeons in keyhole surgery. The facility offers interventional human anatomy, virtual reality simulation, micro-surgery operating microscopes, an operating theatre and fully equipped laparoscopic training laboratories.
n Biomedical Textiles Research Centre – Heriot Watt University – Research programmes on fibre treatment for improved biocompatibility in medical & dental applications
n Robert Gordon University (RGU) – Aberdeen – Health & Wellbeing themes in CVMD, Occupational Health & Psychosocial/Mental Health.
Scotland is also home to three Innovation centres designed to foster collaboration between
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universities and industry: n The Digital Health Institute (DHI) supports projects from the first steps of R&D through to testing, scaling, and getting solutions closer to market. They offer access to the latest research, and encourage companies to develop and test ideas. Read more
n Stratified Medicine Scotland aims to improve the treatment of acute and chronic disease in patients and provide new tools to enable health care providers to diagnose and treat. They support the development of new and better targeted medicines by pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Read more
n The industry-led Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems (CENSIS) plays a key part of the developing innovation landscape in Scotland.
So, it’s clear that Scotland has a lot to offer when it comes to life sciences. And Scottish Development International (SDI), Scotland’s international trade and investment agency, is here to share that story with the world. Our SDI trade specialists based both in Scotland
and in more than 20 locations across the world will continue to work with our partners and Scotland’s international networks such as our GlobalScots, to bang the drum for our country’s life science sector, delivering international trade and investment opportunities in the process. By working together, life sciences could well join
whisky, seafood, golf and even the weather as one of the first things people think about when it comes to Scotland.
www.sdi.co.uk https://www.lifesciencesscotland.com
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