Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (abbreviated as the Dick Vet) is the veterinary school within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The School was ranked first in the UK in the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022 – Veterinary Sciences, second in the UK by the QS World University Rankings 2023 for Veterinary Science, first in the UK for the sixth year running by the Guardian League Table 2022, and second in the UK for the second year running by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide ranking for Veterinary Medicine.

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Roslin Institute

The Roslin Institute is an animal sciences research institute at Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the University of Edinburgh, and is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. It is best known for creating Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell.

BioCampus

The Biocampus is an enterprise area in Midlothian, Scotland. It is part of the larger Edinburgh Science Triangle, which includes the Edinburgh BioQuarter and was the first dedicated national bio-manufacturing campus. Development on the site is supported through financial incentives and business rate reduction through the Scottish Government's enterprise area scheme. The campus was established in 2001 with a 12-hectare (30-acre) site to facilitate large-scale biomanufacturing, with the initial development costing around £15 million. There are outline plans in place to expand the site with a further 1,400 square metres (15,000 ft2) for a phase 2 project. The first facility on the campus was opened by Alba Bioscience, a subsidiary of Quotient, a company offering tests related to blood transfusion diagnostics. The firm received a Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2016 for their work in Midlothian both at the BioCampus site and the nearby Pentlands science park. The campus has close links to a number of university departments including Heriot-Watt University, the University of Strathclyde and the University of Edinburgh. An evaluation in 2005 estimated that enterprise zones across Scotland had generated 58,000 full time jobs at a total public cost of £17,000 per ten-year job. However, some commentators have criticised the tax breaks and financial support given to private companies through enterprise zones, highlighting evidence that very few new high-quality jobs are created with most of the jobs being transferred from other parts of the country.

Easter Howgate

Easter Howgate is a settlement in Midlothian, Scotland, UK, on the A702, two miles north of Penicuik. The Scottish Agricultural College maintains a teaching campus and a research farm there, named "Edinburgh Genetics".

Bilston, Midlothian

Bilston is a small village in Midlothian, Scotland. It is located on the edge of Edinburgh, just south of Loanhead on the A701. The Bilston Burn Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) was occupied from 2002 until the mid-2010s by protestors who successfully opposed plans for a bypass.