IBioIC in the News
Kent-Based Discovery Park is the First Science and Innovation Park to Join Scotland’s Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre
Discovery Park, based in Kent, is the first Life Science and Innovation Campus to join the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC). The story was picked up by Digit News, Pharmaceutical Manufacturer, Bio Markets Insights, EPM magazine on Twitter, and UKSPA.
Biotech Funding will help Net Zero Bid
The launch of the latest edition of IBioIC’s Innovation Fund was greeted with much enthusiasm from the media and was covered by The Scotsman, Digit.fyi, Glasgow City of Science and Innovation, Envirotec Magazine, Silicon Scotland, Deadline, Scottish Financial News, Insider, Where Now Consulting, Herald Scotland, and Food and Beverage Networker.
Scotland’s industrial biotechnology sector anticipated to surpass £1 billion turnover milestone by 2025
The launch of the new National Plan for IB was announced on Day 1 of the Annual Conference and was widely picked up by the media including High Growth Scotland, Scottish Business News, The National, Deadline, Digit.FYI, Scottish Financial News, Edinburgh News, FutureScot, The Scotsman, Labiotech, Where Now Consulting, and Holyrood Magazine. This story was also widely shared on social media.
Infrastructure for growth and net zero – IBioIC conference
This promoted thought leadership story was placed in The Scotsman, and ran online and in multiple print publications owned by The Scotsman, including the Sunderland Echo, Peterborough Telegraph, The News (Portsmouth), Edinburgh Evening News, Lancashire Post (Preston), The Yorkshire Post (Leeds), News Letter (Belfast), and The Star (Sheffield).
Fife life sciences firm X-Genix in talks with pharma giants to help catalyse drug-development
This success story from IBioIC member company X-Genix who have discovered a new bio-based process for halogenation, which sees chlorine or bromine added to certain molecules in pharmaceutical and agricultural products, and whose overall market is believed to be worth more than $250 billion (£201bn) a year. The story was picked up by The Scotsman, both online and in print, Daily Business Group, Scottish Financial News, and Pharmiweb.com.
New study gives algal treatment the green light
The results of this IBioIC funded project between Xanthella and SAMS, which found that green LED light could hold the key to extracting a valuable ingredient for natural health and wellbeing supplements from microalgae was picked up by Fish Farming Expert, The Aquaculturists, Aquafeed, FishFocus, Innovations in Food Technology, Fisker Forum, and Renewable Carbon News.