Drug discovery companies identify, validate and develop new therapeutic candidates for the prevention and treatment of disease. The sector combines biology, chemistry, data science and clinical expertise to bring new medicines from concept to clinic.
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Browse 422 UK drug discovery companies below.
Transcription factor-targeting drug discovery for neurodegeneration
Scripta Therapeutics is an Oxford-based biotech company developing disease-modifying therapeutics by mapping and modulating transcription factor networks. Its platform integrates…
Contract development and manufacturing of complex small molecule APIs and ADCs
Sterling Pharma Solutions is a contract development and manufacturing organisation specialising in complex small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredient development and cGMP…
Dark genome platform identifying first-in-class targets for autoimmune disease
Nucleome Therapeutics is a drug discovery company using 3D genome mapping to identify therapeutic targets encoded in the non-coding regions of the human genome. Its platform…
Oncology biotech creation studio developing and spinning out cancer therapies
Cumulus Oncology is a company creation studio specialising in oncology drug discovery and development. The company identifies and sources novel cancer therapeutic assets from…
Antibody immunotherapy targeting toxic tau for neurodegenerative disease
TauC3 Biologics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company developing an antibody-based immunotherapy that targets tauC3, a toxic, truncated form of the tau protein implicated in…
Infant gut bacteria-derived therapeutic compounds
Bioscopic is a UK biotech developing therapeutic compounds derived from infant gut bacteria to treat cancer and chronic disease. It holds what it describes as the world's largest…
AI operating system connecting pharma drug development decisions end-to-end
Perceptic is a UK software company that has built an AI platform connecting decision-making across the drug development lifecycle. Its system unifies external asset scouting,…
Clinical-stage company developing treatments for cancer cachexia and muscle wasting
Actimed Therapeutics is a clinical-stage specialty pharma developing treatments for cancer cachexia and muscle wasting disorders, areas with significant unmet need and no globally…
Finnish pharma company marketing and developing medicines
Orion Pharma (UK) Limited is the UK subsidiary of Orion Corporation, a Finnish pharmaceutical company. The UK entity manages commercial operations for Orion's prescription…
AI knowledge graph platform curating biomedical literature for drug discovery
Biorelate is a software company providing AI-driven biomedical data curation to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry. Its platform applies natural language processing and…
Academic-industry translational research institute
The Milner Therapeutics Institute is a University of Cambridge biomedical research institute established to bridge academic science and pharmaceutical drug discovery. Founded in…
Cancer biotherapeutics targeting disease-specific protein isoforms
Isoform Oncology is an early-stage biotechnology company developing cancer therapeutics based on isoform switching and alternative RNA splicing. The company identifies…