Interactions with industrial and commercial partners

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases researchers are engaged with industry on several different levels to increase the impact of their research.

Researchers have links with many industrial organisations

Edinburgh Infectious Disease researchers have major collaborations  with several industrial partners, including Aviagen, Cobb-Vantress Inc., Deliverics Ltd, Novartis, and Scottish Enterpise, and Zoetis Inc.

Case studies on interactions with our industrial collaborators

New collaboration between scientists at the Roslin Institute and Zoetis Inc. for research into Salmonella infection in cattle

£790K Proof of Concept grant awarded to Edinburgh Infectious Disease scientists by Scottish Enterprise to study host-targeted microRNA manipulation as an antiviral therapy

Aquila Biomedical spun-out from work in Steve Anderton's lab in the Centre for Inflammation Research to provide drug discovery services in immunology, inflammation, MS and analgesia

Expertise across a wide range of activities

Click on the link below for a summary of our expertise across three main areas of our research porfolio: 

Vaccinology

Antimicrobial agents and infectious disease

Inflammation, allergy and neglected tropical diseases

The summary document contains information about researchers interested in making further collaborations with non-academic partners. 

If you are interested interested in further details about any of the subjects in the summary, in the first instance please contact Hilary Snaith, executive manager of Edinburgh Infectious Diseases.

 

Email Hilary Snaith