RESILIENCE / MDMC Webinar
9th October 2025
The MDMC (Medical Device Manufacturing Centre) team invites you to join the RESILIENCE, UK Medicines Manufacturing Skills Centre of Excellence, for an online session exploring how they support the Life Sciences sector through Outreach, Education, Training, Mentoring and our networks.
The FREE webinar will cover:
An introduction to RESILIENCE, their partners, their network, mission, approach and core activities to building a talent pipeline for the Life Sciences sector.
An overview of their programmes, materials and support available for their members, including their industry-ready hands-on training courses delivered by FlexBIO, a bioprocessing scale-up facility, hosted at Heriot-watt university and managed by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC).
Use of digital training technologies including cutting edge virtual reality (VR) to support technical lab, interpersonal human, and digital skills development, and to enable scalability and environmental sustainability for net zero transition.
Speakers are: Professor Nik Willoughby, RESILIENCE Centre Lead at HWU; Dr Neil Renault, FlexBIO Facilities Manager; and Dr Laura Porcza, RESILIENCE Digital Learning Associate & Outreach Coordinator.
The webinar will be hosted on Microsoft Teams, with a link provided following registration.