Mike Stevens - France in the United Kingdom

Health Science ScotlandAim: To build enduring, or time-limited, collaborativepartnerships that offer critical mass and innovativesolutions in clinical and translational research.Builds on• Translational Medicine Research Collaboration, a £50mcollaboration with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals on biomarkerdiscovery and translational models• Now being progressed through Pfizer Grand Challengeprogramme for biomarker discovery in key disease areas(£3 million investment).• Scotland’s academic research excellence – 2009 Reportfound Scotland’s research is cited by other researchersaround the world more than any other country (relative toGDP)