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Life sciences video showcase

As part of the Northern Innovation Hub, Highlands and Islands Enterprise delivered a fully funded programme to help life sciences businesses across the Highlands tell their story and highlight their innovation.

Through expert-led workshops and professional film production, participating businesses were supported to plan, storyboard, and create bespoke short videos showcasing their work, products, and research carried out in the region.

The resulting films, produced in spring 2025, capture the diversity and ambition of the Highlands’ life sciences sector. They offer a window into the cutting-edge innovation, collaboration, and enterprise happening right here in the north of Scotland.

Explore the videos below to discover how local life sciences companies are developing solutions that make a global impact while growing from a uniquely Highland base.

 

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Video: PHARMAQ

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PHARMAQ is the global leader in vaccines and innovation for aquaculture and part of Zoetis, the world’s largest leader in animal health company.

In this video, the local PHARMAQ Analytiq team in Inverness talk about the fish health diagnostic services that they offer from here including PCR and histopathology. 

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Video: Scottish Vet Referrals

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Scottish Vet Referrals based at the Inverness Campus talk about how their specialist practice has developed over the last 8 years and how they have continued to innovate.

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Video: Rethink Carbon

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Rethink Carbon, the Aviemore-based climate-tech startup, has built a powerful, user-friendly technology platform that helps landowners, communities, investors and policymakers make smarter, faster and more sustainable land use decisions. 

 

 

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Video: Zulu Ecosystems

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Meet Zulu Ecosystems Inverness-based operations and science teams. Their operations team has expertise in ecology, forestry, and peatland restoration. The science team work in biodiversity, hydrology, carbon sequestration, and community benefit.

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Video: Eco Cascade CIC

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Eco Cascade is a Community Interest Company. They provide processing services to seaweed producers in Scotland and aim to support the emerging seaweed industry.

 

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Video: Porex

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Alness-based Porex Technologies Ltd manufactures porous polymer membranes providing a waterproof yet breathable barrier protecting sensitive components whilst maintaining airflow.

Their product is used in applications from health care and life sciences to industrial and consumer products. They serve over 1300 customers across 65 countries from the Highlands.

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Video: GlucoRx

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Dingwall-based research, development and manufacturing company, GlucoRX specialise in medical devices for blood glucose monitoring. Find out more about the team and what they do. 

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Video: Aseptium

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Aseptium are specialists in decontamination in hospital and laboratory settings They research, design, prototype, manufacture and evaluate solutions for decontamination. They work with clients world-wide from their Inverness Campus base.

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Video: DRUid Health

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DRUid Health manufactures and supplies advanced hydrogel biosensors for high-precision diagnostics. Find out how they are building diagnostics to stop antimicrobial resistance. 

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Video: Tiny Air

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Tiny Air designs, develops and makes products to improve pre-cleaning of surgical instruments. This video shares how they are working with NHS Highland to trial their technology.

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Video: Ness Biosensors

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Ness Biosensors develops unique multi-analyte sensors for chronic diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease. Founder Chris Leach shares his ambition to develop a multi-analyte sensor to measure multiple biomarkers from his base in Inverness.

 

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Video: Wristbud.com

Digital health - Wristbud.com

Wristbud is a new kind of smart wearable - a combination of smartwatch and wireless earbuds contained within one compact smart watch. It tracks biomarkers linked to mental health, like cortisol, which is the body’s key stress hormone.

Inverness-based startup, Wristbud is developing this Class I medical device, seeking clinical validation.

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Video: Highland Health Ventures

Digital health - Highland Health Ventures

Highland Health Ventures is working with the NHS to support commercialisation of cutting edge digital and non digital healthcare solutions. Find out more about their collaboration agreement with NHS Highland.

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Video: Atman Health

Digital health - Atman Health

Atman Health is a US-based Digital Health start-up has built a digital platform they are seeking to deploy in the NHS. Find out what they’re doing in Inverness.

 

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Video: Frontier Sciences

Clinical research - Frontier Sciences

Frontier Sciences Scotland is a a not-for-profit biostatistical and data management contract research organisation (CRO). They design, run, and analyse the results of clinical trials from their Aviemore base where they have been established for 20 years.

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Video: Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphoedema Centres

Clinical research - Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphoedema Centres

Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphoedema Centres recently opened a research centre in Inverness where they are testing new treatments and methods for wound healing. Pioneer have well established private-care and NHS England contracted clinics in the South of England that offer specialist care for wounds and lymphoedema including access to clinical trials.

 

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Video: IMULAB

Innovation in health services - IMULAB

IMULAB offers private blood testing services available at home or in-clinic nationwide in the UK. Launched from an Inverness-base, IMULAB serves private individuals as well as sports testing for athletes and health monitoring benefits packages for corporate clients.

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Video: TestMe Health

Innovation in health services - TestMe Health

Test Me Health are experts in food intolerance and gut health testing. They provide home-test kits for food intolerance, microbiome, hormone and targeted tests.

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About the Northern Innovation Hub

This programme is delivered through the Northern Innovation Hub, a funding programme designed to build on and accelerate business innovation.

The Northern Innovation Hub was awarded £11m from the UK Government as part of the Inverness and Highland City-Region Deal. The deal is a joint initiative supported by £315m investment from the UK and Scottish governments, Highland Council, HIE and the University of the Highlands and Islands. This programme also receives financial support through the European Regional Development Fund Scotland Programme.

Explore all business support delivered through the Northern Innovation Hub.

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