Technology underpins all areas of life sciences research. This theme focuses on enabling technologies that are key to driving innovative research forward. The ability to correctly and cleverly analyse generated data is key to maximising the output of these technologies.
Major Areas of Existing Expertise and Excellence
- Bioinformatics
- Gene editing technologies
- High throughput screening
- Microscopy
- Omics technologies
- Synthetic biology
- Systems biology
Specialist Facilities
Centre for Biophotonics (Strathclyde)
Drug Discovery Unit (Dundee)
Edinburgh Genome Foundry (Edinburgh)
Edinburgh Genomics (Edinburgh)
Edinburgh Protein Production Facility (also Biophysical Characterisation; Edinburgh)
Edinburgh Super-Resolution Imaging Consortium (ESRIC) (Edinburgh and Heriot Watt)
European Screening Centre Newhouse (Dundee)
Glasgow Polyomics (Glasgow)
National Phenotypic Screening Centre (Dundee and Edinburgh)
Natural Products Library (Strathclyde)
Protein and Antibody Microarray Facility (Edinburgh)
Scottish Biologics Facility (Aberdeen)
Scottish Structural Proteomics Facility (St Andrews, Dundee)
Industrial Links
- Aquaculture
- Biomanufacturing
- Data systems
- Energy
- Food and drink
- Industrial biotechnology
- Medical devices and technologies
- Oil and gas
SULSA Scientific Advisors
University of Aberdeen
University of Dundee
Dr Paul Andrews (Theme Lead)