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The combination of a highly skilled work force, a critical mass of biotech corporations, supportive local government and enterprise agency, plus strategic investment in hard-to-find services like biomanufacturing, has put the region at the forefront of life sciences research. The biomanufacturing campus, a strategic UK facility, currently under construction, will offer fully serviced sites for corporations wishing to set up European manufacturing capability. Edinburgh’s R&D activities range from agriculture and veterinary medicine to human therapeutics and diagnostics. We have world-leading research groups in areas such as cloning, stem cell biology, inflammation, post-genomics and bioinformatics, and many others. Edinburgh also boasts one of Europe’s largest hospitals (containing one of the world’s oldest and most respected medical schools) and a cluster of world-class science parks. These are home to the innovative companies springing from our universities and research institutes. These companies blend with Edinburgh-based US corporations such as Quintiles Transnational Inc, Serologicals Inc, Johnson & Johnson Inc and Viragen Inc, to make a thriving environment for research.
Edinburgh also offers an outstanding quality of life. Only an hour’s flight from London’s Heathrow airport, the region offers something for all tastes – from golf and hill walking to shopping, history and the Castle.
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