UK Life Sciences Company Directory

Elastomer components and tooling for injectable and inhaled medicines

West Pharmaceutical Services is a global supplier of containment and delivery components for injectable medicines, including elastomer stoppers, seals and plungers for vials, syringes and cartridges. Its UK operations manufacture compression-moulded rubber seals and gaskets for metered dose inhalers and produce the…

Science and innovation campus built on STFC Daresbury Laboratory

Sci-Tech Daresbury is a science and innovation campus in Halton, Cheshire, built on the foundations of the STFC Daresbury Laboratory, a national research facility established in 1962. Managed as a joint venture between Langtree, STFC, and Halton Borough Council, the campus hosts over 150 companies across life…

Precision oncology drugs and vaccines for cold tumours

IngenOx Therapeutics Limited is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing precision oncology drugs and cancer vaccines for difficult-to-treat tumours. The company serves oncology patients and clinical development partners through a pipeline spanning small molecule immunomodulators, PRMT5 inhibition and…

Small molecule GPR65 inhibitors restoring immune response in solid tumours

Pathios Therapeutics is a clinical-stage drug discovery company developing small molecule inhibitors of GPR65, a pH-sensing G protein-coupled receptor that drives immunosuppressive polarisation of tumour-associated macrophages in the acidic tumour microenvironment. By blocking GPR65, Pathios aims to restore…

High-throughput protein stability screening by differential scanning fluorimetry

Protein Stable is a UK instrumentation company developing high-throughput fluorescence systems for protein stability screening. Its SUPR-DSF and SUPR-CM platforms measure thermal and chemical unfolding in microplates, supporting biologics formulation, protein engineering and drug discovery. The technology uses…

DUB inhibitor therapeutics targeting mitophagy and degenerative disease

Mission Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing first-in-class small molecule inhibitors of deubiquitylating enzymes to treat diseases driven by mitochondrial dysfunction. By targeting a mitochondria-localised DUB, the company's drug candidates are designed to enhance mitophagy, the cellular…

Molecular diagnostics, biomarker research and genomic analysis services

BioMarker Solutions is a diagnostics and research services company supporting biomarker discovery, validation and molecular testing. Its activities cover genomic analysis, oncology diagnostics, clinical trial support, digital pathology and laboratory information systems. The group offers NGSuite software for…

Human tissue research CRO supporting preclinical drug discovery

Pharmagene Discovery Services is a UK contract research organisation specialising in laboratory-based research services using consented human tissue and primary human cells. The company provides tailored assay design and development across target expression, spatial biology, functional cellular biology, bioassays, and…

Therapeutics and blood biomarker tests for ALS

Vesalic develops therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), focusing on the potential role of metabolic dysfunction outside the nervous system. Its preclinical programmes include a treatment candidate designed to address toxic cargo carried by exosomes to motor neurons, alongside a…

Molecular diagnostic kits and genomic services for clinical laboratories

Yourgene Health is a molecular diagnostics company developing, manufacturing and commercialising IVD reagent kits and genomic services for reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious disease. Its product portfolio includes NGS-based non-invasive prenatal testing kits, cystic fibrosis screening assays,…

Distributor of antibodies and reagents for life science research

Stratech Scientific was a UK distributor of life science research products, including antibodies, reagents, cells and specialist laboratory supplies used in immunology, cell biology, cancer research and neuroscience. On 24 February 2026, Cambridge Bioscience acquired the business. Stratech's products and customer…

Drug discovery platform targeting biomolecular condensates

Transition Bio is a biotechnology company developing a drug discovery platform based on the biology of biomolecular condensates, the membrane-less cellular structures implicated in a range of diseases. Using droplet microfluidics and machine learning, the company maps and modulates condensate behaviour to identify…

AI-guided RNA therapies for chronic metabolic diseases

Elarna Bio is a biotechnology company developing long-acting RNA therapeutics for chronic metabolic diseases. It combines AI-driven discovery with RNA engineering to improve the duration of therapeutic activity. The platform focuses on challenges associated with liver-targeted RNA treatments and is intended for…

University of Oxford GMP facility for clinical-grade biologics

The Clinical BioManufacturing Facility is the University of Oxford's GMP-licensed manufacturing facility, producing biological investigational medicinal products for early-phase clinical trials. The facility holds an MHRA Manufacturer's Authorisation for Investigational Medicinal Products and manufactures viral vector…

RNA-based therapeutics targeting neurodegenerative disease mechanisms

Harness Therapeutics is a Cambridge-based biotech developing oligonucleotide therapeutics that exploit post-transcriptional regulation to achieve controlled upregulation of disease-relevant proteins in the CNS. Its lead programme targets FAN1 nuclease in Huntington's disease to limit somatic DNA repeat expansion, with…

AI-guided CRISPR platform developing precision-bred crop varieties

Phytoform Labs is a plant biotechnology company combining artificial intelligence and CRISPR-Cas gene editing to accelerate the development of novel crop traits. Its platform models sequence-to-function relationships across plant genomes to predict beneficial DNA variants, which are implemented as transgene-free…

Omics interpretation and mechanism-of-action analysis for agricultural biotechnology

TraitSeq is an agricultural bioinformatics company analysing transcriptomic and other omics datasets to explain biological responses to crop inputs. Its platform combines statistical analysis with species-specific knowledge graphs, published literature and AI-assisted interpretation to identify molecular pathways,…

AI-driven target identification and drug discovery from omics data

Intelligent OMICS is a biotechnology company applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to drug discovery and diagnostics. Its proprietary platform analyses transcriptomic, genomic, and proteomic datasets to identify novel biological targets and disease drivers. The company offers fee-for-service target…

Small molecules improving ribosomal translation accuracy in ageing cells

Ribogenyx is a biotechnology company developing small-molecule therapies to improve protein synthesis accuracy in ageing cells. Its approach targets translational fidelity, the accuracy with which ribosomes translate messenger RNA into proteins. By reducing production errors, the company aims to preserve protein…

GPCR-targeted small molecule therapeutics

Liminal BioSciences is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of small molecule therapeutics that modulate G protein-coupled receptor pathways. The company targets metabolic, inflammatory, and fibrotic diseases using an integrated drug discovery platform combining…