A £1.5m grant has been approved by Glasgow City Council to set up an innovation centre in the city.

The facility will be at the forefront of the worldwide fight against illness and disease.

The new Stratified Medicine Scotland – Innovation Centre, which will also create hundreds of new jobs, will be housed on a floor within the Teaching and Learning facility at the new South Glasgow Hospital campus.

It will also include innovation space for the purposes of strengthening commercial partnerships between local Life Sciences companies, universities and the NHS.

Bailie Liz Cameron, Glasgow City Council's Executive Member for Jobs and the Economy, said: "I am certain that this new innovation centre will not only help our own citizens but the worldwide community to help in the treatment of all type of major illnesses and diseases.

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"It will also help position our city and Scotland at the cutting edge of this important field of stratified medicine. But the council's investment will also show dividends in terms of creating new jobs, business, training and inward investment and will help to grow and support the people and companies in this very important field of medical research."

Stratified Medicine is widely regarded as a key approach to the future diagnosis and treatment of disease to ensure the right patient gets the right treatment at the right time for their particular illness.

The centre, which will be run by the University of Glasgow, on behalf of a consortium of universities, NHS and industrial partners, will help to develop the city's growth ambitions for Life Sciences sector.

The overall project cost is £6.5m, of which £1.5m is being provided by Glasgow City Council, with the remaining £5m being contributed by the Scottish Funding Council.

(JP/CD)