Virtual reality helping grow medicine manufacturing skills

The initiative aims to provide laboratory training in a safe environment.

Virtual reality has become a key tool in teaching and training – and researchers now hope it can help tackle the acute skills shortage currently facing the UK’s medicines manufacturing sector.

The initiative, being piloted at Heriot-Watt University, aims to use the technology to provide laboratory training in a safe environment, with reduced waste.

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