A FIVE-year mission to cement the reputation of Darlington and the Tees Valley as one of the UK’s centres of bioscience innovation has been endorsed by leading industry experts. The backing came at a bioscience industry workshop organised by Teesside University’s National Horizons Centre, featuring leaders from national and international businesses and organisations. The experts gave their wholehearted support to the centre’s ambitious five-year business plan which aims to significantly grow the skills and capacity of the UK’s bioscience industry. The plan includes the recruitment of 15 senior staff and academics. Senior figures from several leading organisations across the life sciences sector took part in the workshop, including FUJIFILM Diosynth Technologies, Cogent Skills and the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre, among others.