Scotland’s academic innovators were last night celebrated at the Converge Awards ceremony in Edinburgh, with life sciences start-ups dominating, alongside those specialising in product design and net zero-related fields.
Professor Rebecca Goss, founder of X-Genix, a biotech start-up in the process of spinning out from the University of St Andrews, was named the overall Converge Challenge winner, taking home £69,000 in equity-free cash and in-kind business support.
The company's technology is aiming to revolutionise the way that medicines are made by transforming the process of halogenation, which is currently expensive, low yielding and wasteful, creating numerous toxic by-products.
