Edinburgh Napier University

British public university in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded in 1964 as Napier Technical College, named after the mathematician John Napier and granted university status in 1992, with campuses at Merchiston, Craiglockhart and Sighthill. Teaches across health and social care, applied sciences, engineering and the built environment, computing, business and the arts, and its School of Applied Sciences runs biomedical science, biological sciences and drug design and biomedical science degrees with research relevant to pharmaceutical and diagnostic development.