On his way to Edinburgh: Toronton’s Mike Tyers
Tyers will be based in Edinburgh and will hold the C H Waddington Chair of Systems Biology at Edinburgh University where he will also run a research group.
SULSA was established by the Scottish Funding Council and the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrew’s, and Strathclyde, which together will invest £77.4 million in life sciences in Scotland over the next five years.
The six universities agreed to work together on certain research programmes. The deal attracted an investment of £27 million from Scottish Funding Council. Together with £57 million from the universities this will attract new academic, with 18 new research posts and 24 support posts are being created.
The initial areas the alliance will be strengthening through its collaboration will be cell biology, systems biology and translational biology – the application of biological knowledge to develop medicines and other therapies for eventual clinical use.
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