Dundee Life Scientist wins prestigious industry award

Professor Roland Wolf has been honoured with a Scottish Enterprise Scottish Life Sciences Award for his outstanding contribution to the development of the life sciences sector in Scotland.

Professor Wolf is the director of the Biomedical Research Centre. The award recognises his part in the commercialisation of research being carried out at the University of Dundee, including co-founding the hugely successful Dundee company CXR Biosciences five years ago.

As well as his commercial and research interests, Professor Wolf was responsible for the establishment of four major research consortia with a group of international pharmaceutical companies.

Professor Wolf said, "The results of the Scottish Enterprise Life Science Awards are watched very closely in the sector, so it's a massive honour for me to have been chosen from such a strong field."

"It's taken the combined expertise of a lot of people to get to this point, and it's my hope that the entire life sciences community - and ultimately patient care - will derive real benefit from that."

Professor Wolf was also a key player in bringing about the first collaboration between four of Scotland's leading universities and major US company Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. The collaboration, assisted by Scottish Enterprise combines the research expertise of Scotland's top scientists with the resources and industry experience of Wyeth.

The result is the Translational Medicine Research Collaboration (TMRC) - in which Wyeth has invested $86 million - based around a central core laboratory in Dundee, and working with centres of excellence at the university medical schools in Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

Professor Wolf is a member of the Board of Governors of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research and a member of several international advisory boards. He has been a consultant to multinational pharmaceutical and consumer products companies.