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How We Can Help : Overview

This page sets out in outline, how Genecom can assist scientists, individuals wishing to start-up in business, SME's and the animal health industry access the expertise of Moredun, the Institute for Animal Health, the Scottish Crop Research Institute and utilise facilities on the Pentlands Science Park and Roslin BioCentre.

For scientists at Moredun, the Institute for Animal Health and the Scottish Crop Research Institute, Genecom can

  • Help translate science into new vacines and diagnostics
  • Promote with partner insitutes, scientific expertise, knowledge, new science and inventions arising from the research base

  • Support company start-up and spin out

  • Assist with licensing of IP
  • Help with finding grants and investments available to
    our partners
  • Manage the Intellectual Property portfolio
  • Carry out Market Research
  • Invest in new ideas and prototypes from the Concept Definition Fund

    • Working with Genecom

    For Moredun contact Richard Mole or Susan McKee

    For IAH contact Mark Cracknell or Patrick McCarthy

    For SCRI contact Jonathan Snape at Mylnefield Research Services Ltd

    For the Roslin Foundation contact Malcolm Bateman

    Working with Commerce and Industry

    Genecom can assist SME's and the animal health industry work more closely with our partners through:

  • access to innovation and intellectual property

  • access to co-funding for collaborative r&d

  • access to expertise either directly or through Interface a unique central point of access for industry to Scotland’s research base. Interface provides a unique service designed to address the growing demand from businesses wanting to engage with academia for knowledge and expertise

  • the Genecom Orphan's Project through which grants and investments are available for SME's and individuals wishing to work with Moredun, IAH and Roslin or hoping to use the science park facilities of the Scottish partners. See also (Under Development)

    • Through our Enterprise and Entrepreneurship training that provides an introduction to business skills aimed at scientists or entrepreneurs wishing to know more about business.

    Find out how to register and what we are doing [click here]

    By access to other translational Funding

    Genecom can help you find new grants and investments for translational science including BBSRC Follow-on Fund, Genomia Fund, Rainbow Seed Fund, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept Funding, RSE Fellowships etc., plus:

    By access to Reports designed to inform you and introduce best practice in business set-up