Scotland to get new facility for regenerative medicine

22 January 2007

A world-leading center for excellence in regenerative medicine and stem cells is to be built in Edinburgh, Scotland, ministers have confirmed. Funding support of L24.0 million ($46.4 million) from the Scottish Executive will allow the L59.0 million Scottish Center for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM) to be developed by the University of Edinburgh in close collaboration with Scottish Enterprise.

The SCRM, which will be part of the new Center for Biomedical Research at Edinburgh's Little France, will be unique in Europe and is thought to be equalled only by Kobe in Japan on a global level, it was noted. In providing state-of-the-art research facilities, manufacturing capacity and commercialization facilities, the SCRM will have three main elements: high-quality accommodation to support 220 academic researchers; a center for scale-up

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