From Innovation to....
Delivery in Regenerative Medicine
The Project’s desired outcome is to enable the development of ” A world-recognised and UK- leading Regenerative Medicine Industry in Scotland, engaged in global markets ,bringing substantial, rapid and multigenerational benefit to the economy of Scotland and to public health around the world”
Project Realise builds on the research and workshops conducted by the Scottish Stem Cell Network in 2009 to develop a Roadmap for the Scottish Regenerative Medicine Industry, which involved the detailed analysis of the Drivers and Blockers, Capabilities and Promoters which will enable successful translation of innovation into therapies for unmet medical needs.
In response to the Technology Strategy Board’s call for bids under the Regenerative Medicine theme for “Value systems and Business models” Project REALISE was submitted and successful for partial funding. The balance of funding for this project was provided by Scottish Government and Edinburgh Bioquarter with the Economic and Social Research Council supporting the academic component at the Innogen centre, University of Edinburgh.
A core component of project REALISE is the development of a tool which will guide industry from discovery through development to delivery of therapies. The development of the infrastructure of the tool will be led by SSCN with our sub-contractor New Game -Plan Ltd, whose Brain Pooling workshops held in May 2009 was the first step in the process. This workshop and the satellite meetings have generated detailed information and data which will now form the content on the software. The tool will be delivered by SSCN as an interactive software application leading those developing products in Regenerative Medicine through a matrix model covering;