Explore life science companies across Yorkshire, including biotechnology companies, CROs, suppliers and research organisations.
National network accelerating innovation across UK agricultural technology
UK Agri-Tech Centre Limited is the UK's largest agri-tech organisation, formed through the merger of three Innovate UK-funded centres: Agri-EPI, CHAP, and CIEL. As an independent, not-for-profit body with over 300 members, it provides R&D facilities, testbeds, business support, and grant management across crop…
Laboratory containment, cell culture and bioprocess equipment
Esco Great Britain is the UK sales and technical-service operation of Esco Lifesciences, supplying controlled-environment equipment to laboratories and biopharmaceutical facilities. Its portfolio includes biological safety cabinets, laminar flow workstations, CO2 incubators, cold storage, cleanroom equipment and…
General laboratory equipment supplier for UK research and education
Wolf Laboratories is a UK distributor of laboratory equipment supplying universities, NHS trusts, research institutes, and schools. Operating primarily through an online platform, the company offers over 250 product ranges including ultra-low temperature freezers, centrifuges, autoclaves, incubators, biosafety…
Benchtop single-molecule fluorescence instruments for life science research
Exciting Instruments develops accessible benchtop single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy instruments and cloud-based analysis software. Its system enables researchers to perform single-molecule FRET and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy without specialist infrastructure, guided alignment, or custom coding. The…
Plant-derived PLA materials for high-performance and compostable plastics
Floreon is an industrial biotechnology and materials company developing high-performance plastics based on renewable polylactic acid (PLA). Its proprietary polymer formulations modify plant-derived PLA for improved toughness, heat resistance and processability. Commercial grades include flame-retardant Therma-Tech,…
siRNA gene therapies targeting root causes of ALS and frontotemporal dementia
Crucible Therapeutics Limited is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company developing siRNA-based gene therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia caused by the C9orf72 gene mutation. Its therapeutic approach depletes the SRSF1 protein to suppress production of toxic dipeptide repeat…
Preclinical CRO for pharmaceutical and agrochemical drug development
Labcorp Early Development Laboratories is a major nonclinical contract research organisation operating from its Harrogate campus in North Yorkshire. The facility provides preclinical pharmaceutical development services including safety pharmacology, toxicology, pathology, bioanalytical testing, and drug metabolism and…
Clinical research and investigational medicines development services
Fortrea is a global contract research organisation providing Phase I–IV clinical development, clinical pharmacology, data management, pharmacovigilance and regulatory support to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Its UK operations include a 100-bed clinical research unit at Drapers Yard in Leeds, with an…
AI toxicology prediction platform reducing animal testing
Consone AI is a software company developing AI-driven toxicology prediction tools for the drug development process. Its platform uses machine learning algorithms trained on a curated database of over 80,000 chemical compounds to predict toxicological outcomes across multiple species, from preclinical models through to…
Cell profiling and precision additives for biologic manufacturing
Silvia Bio is a University of Sheffield spin-out developing cell-profiling services and media additives for mammalian-cell biomanufacturing. Its platform identifies cellular bottlenecks limiting productivity and biologic product quality, then formulates bioreactor-compatible additives to address them without genetic…
Interconnected flow cell culture system for physiological in vitro models
Kirkstall develops interconnected, flow-based cell culture systems for studying human physiology in vitro. Its platform links chambers containing different cell types through shared medium flow, allowing researchers to investigate interactions between tissue models under controlled conditions. Applications include…
Extracellular vesicle platform for consistent, scalable regenerative therapeutics
Mesenbio is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a cell line platform that produces a consistent, scalable supply of therapeutic extracellular vesicles, addressing a key bottleneck limiting this treatment class. The company's cells generate naturally bioactive vesicles with combined…
Web-based bioinformatics platform for microbial genomics and bioprocessing
MORF-Bio is a company developing a web-based software platform that makes microbial bioinformatics and bioprocess data analysis accessible to researchers and industry without specialist coding skills. Its tools cover microbial genome assembly and comparison, metabolic modelling, fermentation data visualisation and…
Flow cytometry and cell culture instrumentation distributor
Swift Analytical is a UK distributor of instruments and consumables for cell biology, cytometry and drug discovery research. Its portfolio includes spectral and imaging flow cytometers, gentle microfluidic cell sorters, droplet selection equipment, and products for spheroid and organoid culture. The York-based company…
Cardiac protein antibodies and S-palmitoylation research reagents
Badrilla is a supplier of research reagents for life science laboratories, specialising in antibodies against cardiac proteins involved in calcium handling and contraction, many of which detect specific phosphorylation states. It also offers kits and reagents for studying protein S-palmitoylation, a reversible lipid…
GMP analytical testing and pharmaceutical regulatory services
Broughton Laboratories is a UK contract analytical laboratory based at Coleby House near Skipton, North Yorkshire. It provides GMP-compliant chemical and physical quality-control testing for pharmaceutical products, alongside analytical method development, validation, stability testing and extractables and leachables…
Regenerative cell therapy for sensorineural hearing loss
Rinri Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech developing allogeneic regenerative cell therapies for sensorineural hearing loss, a condition affecting over 400 million people worldwide for which no disease-modifying treatment currently exists. Its lead programme, Rincell-1, is an otic neural progenitor cell therapy…
AI-generated virtual patients for medical device testing
adsilico is a University of Leeds spin-out developing computational models for preclinical medical device research. It combines generative AI with anonymised clinical imaging to create synthetic patient anatomies, then uses physics-based simulations to investigate how implantable devices perform across diverse…
Automated cell culture platform and stem cell lines for biomanufacturing
Unicorn Biotechnologies is a Sheffield-based company developing automated cell culture instruments and stem cell line products for research and biomanufacturing applications. Its platform is a modular, closed-loop cell culture robot that standardises and scales cell culture workflows across drug discovery,…
API development and GMP manufacturing for pharmaceutical innovators
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories is the UK manufacturing and contract services subsidiary of Indian multinational Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. Operating as Custom Pharma Services (CPS), the company provides contract development and GMP manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, intermediates and finished dosage forms…