SHE barely has her feet under her new desk but already Fiona Lowrie is leading Forth Photonics in new directions.
Lowrie is taking the bio-photonics company into a new global headquarters at Edinburgh Technopole, the site set-up by Edinburgh University and Grosvenor, the property company.
Forth's technology is used as part of a system to screen for and detect
cervical cancer. The company was set up six years ago by Professor Costas Balas.
Lowrie said: "Scotland boasts an excellent reputation, experience and skills in the bio-tech sector, which made locating here a very easy decision".
BAD DAY
Brian SouterTHE Stagecoach tycoon is said to be raging after thieves struck at his garden at Ochtertyre House in Perthshire and made off with his collection of ornamental frog figurines. Souter has appealed for the safe return of the three, three-foot tall figurines.
GOOD DAY
Thomas AndersenMAERSK Oil's chief executive has agreed to be chairman of Offshore Europe 2009, the largest oil and gas event outside North America.
The biennial conference is held in Aberdeen and attracts around 1,500 exhibitors. The 2009 theme is "energy at a crossroads".
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