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The First Minister attended the signing of a memorandum of understanding on stem-cell research collaboration between the University of Edinburgh's centre for regenerative medicine and China's international stem-cell research centre, which is based at Peking University.I launched a pioneering new partnership involving NHS Scotland, the University of Edinburg...
There was an article in The Herald recently on the proposed new Scottish centre for regenerative medicine, which is a major project—£50 million-plus—that is going through the Commission and the monitoring committee.
I developed a more professional attitude and it opened my eyes to the expectations and the commitments that were required to compete at that level.I had initial problems balancing my university career—I was doing medicine, which was fairly demanding—with the requirements of swimming.
Trying to build a business around that project to make it sustainable is difficult, but the trust has managed to get some of the businesses in the area to contribute. Medicine as well as fuel is donated. The trust encourages work parties to come from Scotland and the United States.
As you know, the plan has been operating for about three years, but there has been no recovery of cod stocks so far. The medicine that is prescribed seems simply to consist of tougher and tougher quotas, which are somehow supposed to lead to recovery of cod stocks.Cod is not an iconic species in Scotland, where in many ways we are more interested in haddock...
This includes £0.4m of non-recurring net savings, meaning the underlying recurring revenue gap in 2017/18 is £47.6 m.
All measures possible will be taken throughout the year to minimise this deficit through seeking further non-recurring savings and additional income opportunities.
The specified reserved matters are:
misuse of drugs (Head B1 of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998);
regulation of the health professions (Head G2); and
medicines, medical supplies and poisons (Head J4).
The submission from the University of Glasgow section of psychological medicine states that there"may indeed be critical and/or sensitive periods for social and emotional development after which the opportunity for change may be lost."
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Date answered:
28 April 2006