The drug development start-up TPP Global Development has agreed its first deal, in which it will collaborate with Edinburgh University to carry out preclinical development.
This month sees the opening of the new Kosterlitz Centre for Therapeutics at Aberdeen University, which will provide specialist skills for applying and commercialising medical research.
US universities maintain their grip on the top rankings in the 2010 edition of the Shanghai index published this week, with 54 institutions in the top 100.
Frank Gannon, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland, is to leave his post a year early to become Director and CEO of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
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