Multi-million-pound funding boost for medical device innovation in Scotland

Researchers from the James Watt School of Engineering have welcomed news that a medical device consortium supported by the University of Glasgow has secured significant new funding. Researchers from the James Watt School of Engineering have welcomed news that a medical device consortium supported by the University of Glasgow has secured significant new funding. The Medical Device Manufacturing Centre (MDMC) has been awarded £3.35 million of additional funding from Scottish Enterprise to continue its work developing novel medical device innovation and improve the industry's sustainability. The new funding was confirmed on Thursday 7th December by the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Fair Work and Energy, Neil Gray, who was given a tour of the facility. Dr Tamer Cosgun, a Technical Specialist with MDMC, explains an element of the work of particular interest to Neil Gray, Wellbeing Economy Secretary The money will help to address current challenges facing organisations like the NHS, exploring the inclusion and development of degradable or reusable polymers. Designed to have reduced environmental impact, use of these polymers could help to make medical device manufacturing more sustainable. More work will also be done on the real-time evaluation of the carbon footprint of manufacturing processes and the safer removal of greenhouse gases in the NHS.