A grip-strengthening robotic glove, an app to better connect restaurants and food suppliers and a system to measure forest health using satellites have been named the winners of the University of Edinburgh’s annual awards for student entrepreneurs.
The University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute and animal genetics company Genus PLC have signed an agreement to produce pigs that are resistant to a respiratory disease affecting livestock worldwide.
Edinburgh is hosting commercialisation experts from 10 leading transatlantic universities to find ways to boost investment in regional centres of innovation away from long-established hotspots.
Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, is supporting University of Edinburgh researchers to develop the commercial potential of their work.
Collaborations with pharmaceutical companies not only facilitate the transition of a scientific discovery from bench to bedside, but as the University of Edinburgh’s Dr Veronique Miron discovered, can also contribute to career development as a researcher.
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