A number one well being sciences firm has formally opened a brand new discovery centre devoted to the development of medical analysis and drug growth in Motherwell.
Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Enterprise, Commerce, Tourism and Enterprise, attended the official opening and reduce the ribbon earlier than being given a tour of the brand new facility within the city’s Newhut Street, which is a part of a serious growth by Antibody Analytics.
The corporate is one among Scotland’s prime authorities on immunology and is about to offer a jobs increase within the space.
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Antibody Analytics supplies complicated immunology and first cell companies to drug builders. The corporate has supported a number of key scientific initiatives resulting in the acceleration of drug growth within the area of most cancers analysis and the assist for therapy for ailments corresponding to rheumatoid arthritis, moist macular degeneration, metastatic colorectal most cancers and breast most cancers.
The revealing of the brand new Antibody Analytics Discovery Centre, funded partly with assist from Scottish Enterprise, will act because the springboard for the corporate’s progress plans which embody a recruitment marketing campaign to extend workers capability by nearly 50 per cent this 12 months.
The official opening of the brand new 2000 m2 facility additionally sits consistent with the upward trajectory the sector of superior therapeutics is presently experiencing as increasingly biotechnology and pharma-based drug builders search the experience of world-class immunology analysis companies.
The corporate’s new discovery centre presents 10 instances its present footprint and is the fruits of two 12 months’s work.
Andy Upsall, managing director of Antibody Analytics, stated: “Our plans to boost our provision of companies within the discovery section of drug growth shall be bolstered by the opening of our new base which is able to present important elevated house for our ground-breaking work within the area of complicated immunology and sooner or later, will enable us to assist drug builders as they advance by way of scientific trials.
“Antibody Analytics is targeted on offering a first-class service and to upholding a dedication to satisfy and exceed the necessities of our purchasers each within the UK and globally.
“The relocation to our bigger, fit-for-purpose location places us in a terrific place to drive innovation inside the firm to maneuver ahead.
“Our goal is to cement our place as a market chief within the area of complicated immunology and first cell programs.”
The corporate presently employs 60 workers starting from laboratory personnel, inside each operations and analysis and growth departments, to high quality, gross sales and advertising and marketing workers. The recruitment drive will proceed past 2022, as the corporate intends to develop the pinnacle rely to over 200 workers, all enabled by the house the brand new facility supplies.
For extra data on the corporate and its work go to: www.antibodyanalytics.com
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