12.00, Tuesday 02 June 2026
The Symposium Building, Hill Square Edinburgh
Surgeons Quarter, Nicholson Street Edinburgh
Before the FORUM Sir Colin Dollery Lecture, join an in‑person showcase bringing together the organisations, technologies, and people turning engineering biology from breakthrough science into deployable solutions for health. A buffet lunch will be provided.
With an opening address from Professor Louise Horsfall, Chair of Sustainable Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, this interactive lunchtime event highlights the full implementation pathway—from design and build, through validation and scale‑up, to regulation and adoption. Companies, researchers, NHS partners, regulators, and investors will present real‑world use cases that show how programmable biology is moving from the lab bench into clinical, manufacturing, and diagnostic settings.
This showcase is designed for anyone interested in how to accelerate the safe and effective adoption of engineering biology in healthcare—whether you are already working with these technologies or exploring how they might apply to your own area of research, clinical practice, or innovation. Expect practical, cross-sector insights and structured networking with opportunities to form collaborations.
Exhibitors include Ingenza, ZYTHERA, Concinnity Genetics, the Edinburgh Genome Foundry, Sciencewise, and the MHRA.
Participants will include engineering biology companies, researchers across all academic career stages, NHS Scotland and health innovation hubs, funders, life‑science investors, regulators and standards bodies, and policymakers from across the UK.
The showcase precedes the FORUM Sir Colin Dollery Lecture by Professor Susan Rosser and the cross-sector panel chaired by Professor Dame Angela McLean, ensuring a joined‑up conversation from scientific possibility to system‑level implementation. You can register to attend the Lecture in-person or register to livestream the Lecture online.
This event is part of the Academy’s FORUM programme, which convenes participants from across sectors to take forward national discussions on scientific opportunities, technology trends, and developments for health and life sciences.