Microbiology companies study microorganisms and develop technologies that support research, diagnostics, manufacturing and environmental applications. The field spans bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbial systems.
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Browse 107 UK microbiology companies below.
Microbial food-waste treatment integrated with robotic handling
Vuala is an industrial biotechnology and robotics company developing on-site food-waste treatment equipment. Its systems combine microorganisms with automated handling and separation to process mixed food waste into a stabilised organic feedstock suitable for downstream energy recovery. Robotics manage bin lifting,…
Microbiology and biofilm testing contract research organisation
5D Health Protection Group is a UK-based contract research and microbiology testing organisation providing antimicrobial, biofilm and infection control research services to healthcare, medical device and industrial clients. The company offers accredited laboratory testing, product evaluation and outsourced R&D support…
Microbial CRO for natural product discovery and fermentation scale-up
Isomerase is a company providing contract research and development services centred on microbial synthetic biology, with expertise spanning natural product discovery, enzyme engineering, strain bioengineering, and fermentation process development. It serves clients across pharma, biotech, agritech, food and consumer…
Distributor of clinical diagnostics and cleanroom solutions
AB Scientific is a UK distributor supplying clinical diagnostics and industrial cleanroom solutions to NHS hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers and research laboratories across the UK and Ireland. Its clinical division provides quality control materials, reagents and instrumentation across haematology, clinical…
UK manufacturer of microbiological culture media and donor blood products
E&O Laboratories is the UK's largest privately owned manufacturer of ready-to-use microbiological culture media, dehydrated culture media, antibiotic supplements, and donor animal blood products. Operating from two cGMP manufacturing sites in Scotland, the company supplies clinical, veterinary, pharmaceutical, and…
Synthetic mycolic acid antigens and point-of-care TB diagnostics
Diagnostig is a Welsh diagnostics and chemical synthesis company developing point-of-care immunoassay devices for the diagnosis of mycobacterial infections, including human and bovine tuberculosis. The company's technology is based on fully synthetic mycolic acids, chemically defined cell wall components unique to…
Rapid point-of-care antibiotic susceptibility testing for antimicrobial resistance
Microplate Dx is a diagnostics biotechnology company developing a rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing platform for use at the point of care. Its biosensor technology uses hydrogel-modified electrodes loaded with antibiotics to determine the most effective treatment for a patient's bacterial infection in under one…
Sustainable biopesticides and plastic-free microencapsulation for crop and animal health
Eden Research is an AIM-listed developer and supplier of sustainable biopesticides and natural microencapsulation technology for the crop protection, animal health and consumer products industries. The company's encapsulation system, derived from yeast, delivers terpene-based active ingredients as a plastic-free…
Manufacturer of biological reagents, sera, and QC products
TCS Biosciences is a UK manufacturer and distributor of biological reagents, quality control products, and diagnostic test kits, serving the clinical, pharmaceutical, and environmental sectors. The company is Europe's leading supplier of animal blood and sera for microbiological applications, and also supplies cell…
Preclinical vaccines targeting antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections
VacTimmune is a biotechnology company developing preventative vaccines against bacterial pathogens associated with antimicrobial resistance. Its preclinical pipeline includes candidates targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae and other clinically important bacteria, with an emphasis on infections…
Microbial crop inoculants for nitrogen fixation and soil health
Legume Technology is an agricultural biotechnology company manufacturing microbial inoculants that support crop establishment and nutrient uptake. Its formulations contain nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi and Bacillus species, tailored to legumes and other crops. These living products are applied…
Rapid genomic diagnostic device for sepsis and bacterial infections
GenomeKey is a biotechnology company developing an in vitro diagnostic device that uses whole genome sequencing and machine learning to identify bacteria and their antimicrobial resistance profiles directly from patient blood within hours. The device targets sepsis, where current culture-based diagnostics take 24 to…
Platform making human microbiology computable for drug discovery
Outpost Bio is a biotechnology company building predictive models of human microbial ecosystems by integrating automated wet lab experimentation with machine learning. Its Lab-in-the-Loop platform generates large-scale datasets on microbe-host and microbe-drug interactions, with the aim of predicting how microbial…
Rapid airborne DNA sequencing service for pathogen detection and biosecurity
Agnos Biosciences is a deep tech company commercialising AirSeq, a rapid DNA air sequencing technology for the detection and quantification of airborne biological material. AirSeq combines novel molecular biology, DNA sequencing and bespoke computational analysis to simultaneously identify thousands of species,…
Carbon capture and biomanufacturing using engineered cyanobacteria
CyanoCapture is a company developing a biomanufacturing platform that uses genetically engineered cyanobacteria to sequester carbon dioxide and convert it into high-value products including recombinant proteins and graphite. Its photobioreactor-based system is designed to offer affordable carbon capture for industrial…
Anti-virulence drug discovery from natural bioactive compounds
Neem Biotech is a Wales-based drug discovery company developing novel non-traditional antimicrobial treatments derived from naturally inspired compounds. The company specialises in quorum sensing inhibitors and anti-biofilm agents, with programmes targeting wound infection and cystic fibrosis. Its discovery approach…
Rapid point-of-care molecular diagnostics for infectious disease
Llusern Scientific is a diagnostics company developing portable, rapid molecular diagnostic systems for use at the point of care. Using isothermal amplification technology, the company's platform identifies bacterial pathogens directly from patient samples without laboratory infrastructure, delivering results within…
Contract research for animal health, aquaculture and biopharmaceutical biosafety
Moredun Scientific is a contract research organisation providing efficacy and safety testing services for veterinary and aquaculture products, and biosafety testing of biopharmaceuticals. The company conducts studies across major livestock species and fish using validated infectious disease models for bacteria,…
Specialist respiratory CRO delivering human challenge trials and preclinical models
Virtus Respiratory Research is a contract research organisation specialising in early-stage clinical and preclinical research for respiratory drug development. The company conducts human virus challenge trials and in vitro preclinical studies focused on asthma, COPD, respiratory virus infections, and related…
Clinical-stage anti-infectives targeting antimicrobial resistance and infectious disease
NovaBiotics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing first-in-class anti-infective therapies for difficult-to-treat infectious diseases, with a focus on antimicrobial resistance. Its pipeline is built on two proprietary platforms: an anti-infective peptide platform yielding antifungal and antibacterial…