£4.5 million Edinburgh skills project will boost life sciences sector and NHS

Edinburgh is to become a base for a multi-million-pound project to help address an “acute” skills shortage in the life sciences sector.

The new initiative, known as Resilience, aims to tackle the skills shortage faced by the medicines manufacturing industry in the UK, and the capital’s Heriot-Watt University will be one of the partners delivering the programme. Funded by the Office for Life Sciences, part of the UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, and managed through Innovate UK, Resilience is a £4.5 million, two-year programme.