Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and a specialist Chinese materials company have launched a collaborative project to develop graphene-based materials for use in waste treatment and purification applications.
With support from Edinburgh Innovations, Blackwood Homes and Care has won a major funding award from UK Research and Innovation for a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and industry partners, as part of the ISCF Healthy Ageing Challenge to help older people live at home for longer and with greater independence.
Dr Emily Sena from the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh discusses her research and how collaborating with industry brings a diversity of perspectives.
Edinburgh Innovations clients have taken the two biggest prizes in the Scottish EDGE awards, with Dyneval winning the top biotech award, sponsored by iBioIC, and Waterwhelm receiving the Higgs EDGE award for science, tech and engineering businesses. Both awards are worth £100,000.
An £8.7 million, five-year research collaboration led by the
University of Edinburgh and FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies UK (FDB)
will develop more cost-effective ways to make modern antibody-based
medicines.
When Professor Neil Carragher moved from industry to academia to establish a drug discovery group at the Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre he already had an innovative vision for disrupting the way in which therapeutics are discovered.
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