page_title: Edinburgh BioQuarter
section_title: Facilities and companies
hierarchical_section_title: Edinburgh BioQuarter / Facilities and companies
caption_attribution_description: English: An artist's impression of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, which will open in 2011
context_page_description: The Edinburgh BioQuarter is a bioscience community based in the Little France area of Edinburgh. It is Scotland's key initiative in the development of its life sciences industry, which as of August 2020 employs more than 39,000 people in over 750 organisations.
context_section_description: Edinburgh BioQuarter currently co-locates a 1000+-bed teaching hospital, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, with the Queen's Medical Research Institute (ranked #1 in the UK for clinical medical research, according to the 2008 research assessment exercise) and the Clinical Research Imaging Centre, or CRIC, opened by HM the Duke of Edinburgh in late 2010.
  Over the last three years, Edinburgh has attracted 53% of all Wellcome Trust grants in Scotland and 62% of Medical Research Council (MRC) funding in Scotland, making it a major centre of research income.
  In November 2011, a new bioincubator building will come on stream offering 80,000 square feet (7,400 m²) of office and laboratory space, as well as the new Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM), headed by Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, creator of "Dolly the Sheep." This new centre will apply Scotland's world-leading stem cell research to new therapies for conditions such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and other conditions.
  In September  2010, author JK Rowling endowed research at the BioQuarter with a £10 million gift to create the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.
  By 2016, the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People will be located at the BioQuarter, together with the Scottish Mind and Body Institute, a cross-disciplinary centre aimed at finding cures or therapies for neurological conditions.
  Companies currently located at or associated with the BioQuarter community include:
  Fios Genomics – genomic and bioinformatics data analysis services for drug discovery & development
  Immunosolv – technologies and products for the removal of dead cells
  TPP Global Development - a drug development company with offices in London and Edinburgh
  I2Eye Ltd – visual field impairment testing for small children and special needs groups
  NeuroORG – management consultancy that shapes organisational behaviour on the basis of neurological science
caption: An artist's impression of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine
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