Antibody discovery companies develop platforms and services for identifying antibodies used in therapeutics, diagnostics and life science research. Their technologies support candidate discovery, screening, optimisation and early development.
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Browse 45 UK antibody discovery companies below.
Microfluidic instruments for protein interaction and single-cell analysis
Fluidic Sciences is a company developing and supplying instruments for biopharmaceutical research, combining two complementary technology platforms. Its core offering covers in-solution protein interaction characterisation without immobilisation, alongside a high-throughput picodroplet platform for single-cell…
Integrated CRO services from drug discovery to manufacture
Charles River Laboratories is a global contract research organisation providing integrated preclinical drug discovery and development services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic clients. UK operations span multiple sites offering medicinal chemistry, biology, ADME/PK, structural biology, immunology, in vivo…
Proprietary phage display platform for therapeutic antibody discovery
RxBiologics is a Cambridge-based antibody discovery CRO and subsidiary of RxCelerate. Its proprietary phage display library platform incorporates in-line optimisation technology modelled on B cell affinity maturation, designed to generate clinic-ready antibody candidates with drug-like properties from first selection.…
ML-driven antibody discovery platform for solid tumour therapeutics
LabGenius Therapeutics is a company developing next-generation therapeutic antibodies using its closed-loop machine learning platform. The platform integrates AI, robotic automation and high-throughput experimentation to co-optimise multispecific antibodies across potency, selectivity and manufacturability…
Bioanalytical instruments and patient-derived organoid expansion services
Molecular Devices develops bioanalytical instruments, laboratory automation and cell-based research technologies for drug discovery. Its portfolio includes microplate readers, high-content imaging systems, clone screening instruments and laboratory analysis software. The company acquired Cardiff organoid specialist…
Synthetic DNA, gene synthesis and NGS reagents for life science research
Twist Bioscience is a synthetic biology company offering a broad portfolio of DNA-based products and services for research, diagnostics, and therapeutic development. Its silicon-based DNA synthesis platform enables high-throughput production of synthetic genes, oligo pools, NGS target enrichment panels, and antibody…
Antibodies, proteins, and molecular reagents for life science research
ABclonal UK is the British subsidiary of a global life science tools and services group, supplying research reagents and custom development services to academic, diagnostic, and biopharmaceutical customers. Its catalogue spans recombinant and monoclonal antibodies, ELISA kits, active proteins, molecular enzymes, and…
Academic protein informatics and antibody modelling tools
Oxford Protein Informatics Group is a University of Oxford research team led by Professor Charlotte Deane, developing computational methods for protein structures and interactions. Its researchers apply machine learning and bioinformatics to antibody modelling, immunoinformatics, protein engineering and drug…
End-to-end antibody discovery and development services for global biopharma
FairJourney Biologics is a contract research organisation providing integrated antibody discovery, engineering, production and characterisation services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide. The company combines phage display and mammalian display technologies across immune and naïve antibody…
Human proteome microarrays and protein array screening services
Cambridge Protein Arrays supplies human proteome microarrays and specialist screening services for researchers. Its HuProt arrays contain thousands of full-length human proteins, enabling antibody specificity testing, autoantibody profiling and investigations of molecular interactions. Researchers can obtain arrays or…
End-to-end lateral flow immunoassay development and manufacturing
Global Access Diagnostics (GADx) is a contract developer and manufacturer of rapid lateral flow immunoassay tests for human, veterinary, and agricultural applications. Operating as a social enterprise, GADx provides end-to-end diagnostic development services from assay design and antibody development through to…
AI-powered drug design engine built on AlphaFold technology
Isomorphic Labs is an artificial intelligence company applying frontier AI to drug discovery, built on and beyond the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein structure prediction system developed at Google DeepMind. Its proprietary drug design engine spans target identification, molecular design, and binding prediction…
Contract antibody discovery, engineering and supply services
Fusion Antibodies is a contract research organisation specialising in preclinical antibody discovery, engineering and supply for pharmaceutical and diagnostic clients. Services span antigen expression, antibody generation, humanisation, affinity maturation, developability optimisation, and stable cell line…
CDMO supplying custom reagents, antibodies, and diagnostic components
Life Science Group is an independent UK contract development and manufacturing organisation supplying custom cell culture media, sera, buffers, and reagents, alongside antibody generation services and diagnostic kit components. Operating from an ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certified facility in Bedfordshire, the company…
Specialist immunology CRO for preclinical biotherapeutic drug discovery
RoukenBio is a specialist contract research organisation providing preclinical immunology services to biopharmaceutical companies worldwide. Its team offers cell-based bioassay development, functional characterisation of antibody therapeutics and complex biologics, cell line engineering, and CMC-quality potency assay…
National institute developing new imaging and technology platforms for life science
The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a national institute developing new technologies for the life sciences, bringing together physical sciences, engineering and biology. The Institute's research spans artificial intelligence, biological mass spectrometry, advanced imaging and structural biology, aiming to reveal…
Infectious disease research platforms and industry-academic partnerships
iiCON (Infection Innovation Consortium) is a Liverpool-led research partnership accelerating the discovery and development of infectious disease interventions. Led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, it connects industry, academia and the NHS through specialist platforms covering antimicrobial discovery,…
Cancer Research UK's translational and commercialisation arm
Cancer Research Horizons is the translational subsidiary of Cancer Research UK, operating at the interface between academic research and industry. The organisation combines in-house drug discovery expertise across six UK sites with technology transfer, licensing, and early-stage venture investment activities. It…
Light-controlled droplet microfluidics for single-cell functional analysis
Lightcast Discovery is a life science tools company developing a droplet-based system for single-cell functional analysis. Using light to precisely control picolitre-scale droplets, the platform enables parallel interrogation of tens of thousands of individual cells across a range of functional assays, including…
Ultra-high-throughput biologics discovery platform powered by generative AI
Sortera Bio is a biotechnology company developing an AI-powered platform for the discovery and engineering of biological therapeutics. The Deep Screening platform generates sequence and functional data across hundreds of millions of biologics in a single experiment, producing large-scale training datasets for…