Umicore Coating Services Ltd

Umicore Coating Services Ltd
Kinnoull Street Dundee UK DD2 3ED
coatingservices@umicore.com
01382 833022
01382 833824
www.coatingservices.umicore.com
Description

Umicore Coating Service is a market leader in the thin film coatings industry, providing an extensive range of ultra low absorption laser coatings, as well as other types of coatings and filters for infrared and visible systems. Umicore Coating Services has expertise in thin film analysis and design and can provide coatings solutions to most demanding specifications. Coating design and manufacture.

Products & Services
  • Germanium For IR Optics
  • Germanium For Gamma Ray Detectors
  • High Purity Chemical Germanium Tetrachloride
  • Germanium Metals
Skills & Expertise

Umicore optics offers both monocrystalline and polycrystalline Ge. Standard optical grade materials are produced to optimize transmission in the usable wavelength region. Ge has also been shown to be a good electro-magnetic interference (EMI) shielding material. Other grades, engineered to meet your specific requirements, are also available. Who are we:

  • Umicore Optics is part of Umicore’s Optics Business Line, which in turn is part of the Electro-Optic Materials business unit.
  •  Umicore Optics is the world’s largest producer of optical grade Germanium. Umicore Optics is leading the way in Germanium and GASIR® chalcogenide glass materials.
  •  Umicore Optics has sale offices and facilities around the world.

Trivalent Editing

Trivalent Editing
N/A
www.trivalentediting.co.uk
01382 541899
info@trivalentediting.co.uk
Description

Trivalent Editing provides a science editing service for academics and business clients in the Life Science sector. Our editors are committed to improving the presentation and readability of all types of scientific texts. 

Products & Services

We offer a tailored rewriting, copy-editing and proofreading service for all types of scientific and technical manuscripts.
 In our current economic climate, it's essential that funding applications and journal submissions are as competitive as possible. However, they are less likely to be successful if reviewers find the text difficult to read.
We provide:

  • expertise in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines
  • a rapid turnaround
  • simple pricing
  • native English-speaking editors

 Writing fluently in English can be a challenge for non-native English speakers. We have experience in editing texts from scientists of all nationalities, and will ensure that all our clients’ manuscripts read more fluently.

Skills & Expertise

The Trivalent team comprises biomedical scientists with over 40 years' combined post-doctoral research experience in a wide range of life science disciplines, who have undertaken further professional training to refine their editorial skills.
We support academics preparing research manuscripts and funding applications, offer an efficient editorial service to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, and provide editorial and project management services to bioscience publishing houses.

Thorntons Law LLP

Thorntons Law LLP
Whitehall House, 33 Yeaman Shore Dundee Dundee DD1 4BJ
www.thorntons-law.co.uk
01382 229111
01382 202288
www.thorntons-law.co.uk
Description

Thorntons is one of the largest law firms north of the central belt, and has earned a strong reputation for delivering quality services to the biotech sector in Tayside and beyond. With a large team of solicitors, including 30 partners, Thorntons delivers expert advice on a full range of legal services, with our Intellectual Property Team operating principally from our offices in Dundee and Edinburgh.Inherent in offering a full range of legal services is being able to deliver a high quality service to a wide range of clients - from private individuals to large commercial concerns and public companies.Our client profile embraces commercial and industrial companies, institutions, public authorities, further and higher educational institutions, health boards, university commercialisation companies, CRAs, bio-tech companies, software and games developers and private individuals - across the UK and into Europe and beyond.With the advantages that IT has brought to the legal profession, we are increasingly able to overcome any geographical barriers which may have once hindered conducting business at a distance. Our policy, none-the-less, is to continue to deliver a personalised bespoke service to each of our clients. 

Products & Services

Thorntons provides a full range of legal advice to a range of businesses in the bio-tech sector. With a specialist accredited by The Law Society of Scotland in Intellectual Property Law working alongside a dedicated team of business lawyers, Thorntons is fully equipped to address the needs of the sector.We pride ourselves on a fast, commercially orientated approach, with the emphasis on effective and practical problem solving.For those organisations that have intellectual property requirements, our Intellectual Property Team has the expertise to help you discover, protect and exploit these often hidden assets. We can provide assistance with:-

  • Confidentiality undertakings – new product or joint venture
  • Email issues – including defamation on the internet and e-commerce
  • Employee confidentiality
  • Non-competitive undertakings/restrictive covenants – and their enforcement
  • Research and Development Agreements
  • Trade mark registration
  • Patent Licence Agreements
  • Software Development Agreements for bespoke software development projects
  • Copyright Licence Agreements – including Software Licensing
  • Infringement proceedings – enforcement and defence
  • Technology Transfer Agreements
  • Intellectual Property Rights audits
  • Trade mark Agreements
  • Design Registration
  • Licensing agencies advice
  • Collaboration Agreements
Skills & Expertise

Specialists in Intellectual Property Law

TayMed Connect

TayMed Connect
Wilson House, 1 Wurzburg Loan,Dundee Medipark,Dundee DD2 1FD
www.dundee.ac.uk/taymed-connect
N/A
taymed-connect@dundee.ac.uk
Description

TayMed Connect is a gateway for healthcare innovation, linking entrepreneurs and innovators with world-class resources and expertise across the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside. Acting as a central portal, it provides clear pathways and tailored support to help ideas progress efficiently from concept to meaningful healthcare solutions. With access to unique facilities and the unique clinical testbed of Tayside, TayMed Connect ensures innovation is nurtured, streamlined, and connected to the right people and tools at the right time.

Products & Services

We tailor solutions to meet your needs. Whether you are seeking to co-develop technologies, access research expertise, or validate your products in real-world clinical environments, TayMed Connect connects you to the right people and resources through our partnerships with the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside.

We have access to core resources across both institutions. By partnering with TayMed Connect, your business gains access to leading researchers, clinicians, and cutting-edge facilities. We provide a pathway to co-develop, refine, and validate your innovations in a unique clinical testbed, ensuring they meet real-world healthcare needs and achieve market readiness.

Skills & Expertise

TayMed Connect is a med-tech innovation hub that bridges the University of Dundee’s world-class research strengths with NHS Tayside’s clinical ability and industry partnerships. Together, we create, evaluate, and deliver innovative healthcare technologies to transform patient care 

We connect academic research, clinical expertise, and industry insights to co-develop medical innovations that improve patient outcomes and healthcare delivery. From ideation to testing in real-world settings, we guide innovations through every stage of development.

FingerPrints Proteomics

FingerPrints Proteomics
School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow St, DD1 5EH
dundee.ac.uk/proteomics
01382 388275
Description

The ‘FingerPrints’ Proteomics Facility at the University of Dundee offers world-class proteomics services, featuring cutting-edge technologies like the first Thermo Orbitrap Astral Mass Spectrometers in the UK. We specialise in quantitative proteomics including Isobaric (TMT) and Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA), phosphoproteomics, targeted MS analysis, providing high-resolution data for biomarker discovery, drug target validation, and multi-omics research. With advanced automation and expert support, we help researchers generate deep insights into protein function and regulation. Discover how our facility can accelerate your research.

Products & Services

Who do we work with?

· Commercial clients

· Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

· Biotechnology companies

· Pharmaceutical companies

· Drug Discovery companies

· Those requiring high-quality proteomics data for research and development such as artificial intelligence tool development

We also work with customers from Universities and Research Institutes globally.

Technology Enabled Care, Dundee Voluntary Action

Technology Enabled Care, Dundee Voluntary Action
N/A
www.facebook.com/DundeeTEC/
01382 305702
dva@number10.org
Description

Project funded through Scottish Government and Dundee Health & Social Care Partnership to spread awareness and gather views about Technology Enabled Care and Healthcare

Products & Services

 Short videos, presentations, engagement, consultation, social media, research

Skills & Expertise

 Communications

Tan International Ltd

Tan International Ltd
Tayview Industrial Estate, Friarton Road Perth Perthshire PH2 8DG
www.taninternational.com
01738 632909
01738 632901
sales@taninternational.com
Description

We are a truly independent, diverse chemical company who have the expertise in delivering chemical and food ingredient solutions to your business. TAN International Ltd is committed to the principles of sustainability, recycling and safety for the environment and the communities we serve.

Products & Services
  • General chemicals
  • Food and Pharmaceuticals
  • Packaging supplies
  • Repackaging services
  • Blending
  • Storage
Skills & Expertise

Our mission is to deliver responsible solutions to meet our customers requirements, and achieve sustainable growth in the distribution and supply of chemicals, food and feed ingredients, and fertiliser products, in a safe and suitable manner.As a company with increasingly global contacts, we aim to work with suppliers and customers to become their preferred partner, building long term, mutually rewarding relationships. We work with our partners to earn their trust and respect by delivering responsible and innovative win-win solutions.

Sylexis Limited

Sylexis Limited
236 Coupar Angus Road Muirhead, Angus, DD2 5QN
N/A
01382 581545
01382 880099
info@sylexis.co.uk
Description

Sylexis provides biomedical consultancy to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies.

Products & Services

Sylexis Limited - Products & ServicesSylexis offers the following services:

  • Product development planning
  • Literature reviews
  • Investigator brochure preparation
  • Clinical trial design and protocol writing
  • Ethics & regulatory submission document preparation for clinical trials
  • Safety reports for Ethics & Regulatory review
  • Medical review of clinical data
  • Clinical study report writing
  • Manuscript writing 
Skills & Expertise

An experienced pharmaceutical physician with expertise in early and late phase product development in Europe and the US, to ICH-GCP standards, across several therapeutic areas, e.g. clinical pharmacology, diabetes & cardiovascular medicine.

Spectratox Ltd

Spectratox Ltd
Department of Photobiology, Ninewells Hospital Dundee Tayside DD1 9SY
www.spectratox.co.uk
01382 632240
01382 646047
Description

Spectratox Ltd is a Contract Research Organisation (CRO) which provides advice on the interpretation of laboratory data as well as the photosensitivity is in the business of clinical phototoxicity studies and in time laboratory photosensitivity testing to the pharmaceutical and health care sectors.
The sole shareholder of Spectratox Ltd is the Photobiology Trust, a charitable organisation devoted entirely to the promotion of dermatological research, education and clinical care.
The new venture, driven by the experience and reputation of Professor James Ferguson will operate to the highest industrial, regulatory and ethical standards offering first class phototoxicity testing with the capability of providing residential facilities which will be independent of the NHS.

Products & Services

The experienced team at Spectratox offers a seamless service where the quality of the analysis is combined with the ability to perform volunteer and additional post study scientific testing or research as necessary. Clinical phototoxicity trials are conducted on healthy volunteers using the drugs or product supplied by industry and tested for phototoxicity. The results will be analysed and reported back to the trial sponsor. Phototoxicity testing is carried out on the premises of the National Photobiology Unit of Ninewells Hospital and Medical School (part of NHS Tayside).
Full phototoxicity services comprise:

  • Volunteer phototoxicity studies for topical and systemic drugs
  • Laboratory photosensitivity testing
  • Scientific input
  • Study design
  • Protocol production and review (in collaboration with sponsor)
  • Ethics submission and approval
  • Regulatory approval (if necessary)
  • CRF design
  • IMP management
  • Subject recruitment and consent
  • Dosing and sampling
  • Phototesting and recording of results
  • Accident and Emergency management
  • Monitoring and Q&A
  • Data management
  • Interpretation of results
  • Report production and review
Skills & Expertise

Spectratox's company strengths and core competencies are:

  • Key team members with 20+ years experience of patient phototoxicity and in conducting phase 1 phototoxicity trials and a proven track record with the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Professor James Ferguson will the the Principal Investigator (PI) in Spectratox. He is a world renowned academic and clinician with significant publications in the field of photodermatology. His main areas of research interests are in the specialised area of phototherapy and photochemotherapy of skin diseases and clinical and laboratory study of drug induced phototoxicity, particularly fluoroquinolones; study of the natural history and treatment of the photosensitivity disorders.
  • Access to phototoxicity testing equipment that is ISO9001 accredited.
  • Ready access to emergency resuscitation services.
  • Access to a large student population for creating the volunteer database.
  • Ready access to a facility for housing volunteers on a residential capacity.
  • If a compound is found to be photosensitive, scientific knowledge and expertise is available to modify it to limit the photosensitive effect without affecting its efficacy.
  • A loyal, committed and passionate core team.

SP Technology Ltd

SP Technology Ltd
Camperdown Industrial Park Dundee Dundee DD2 3SP
www.sptechnology.co.uk
01382 880088
01382 880099
info@sptechnology.co.uk
Description

SP Technology build and design special purpose machines and automation systems for a wide range of industries including the Biotech, Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Industries.Their technology aims to improve efficiency through automation where practical.Projects have included the the design and build of assembly machines for a needlefree drug delivery system.

Products & Services
  • Automatic assembly systems
  • Flexible automation cells
  • Semi-automatic operator cells
  • Robotic systems
  • Inspection & Testing systems
  • Collating & Packaging systems
  • Clean room assembly cells
  • Clean room robotics.
Skills & Expertise
  • Mechanical, Electrical, Software design engineers.
  • Complete mechanical & toolmaking manufacturing capabilities.