UK Life Sciences Company Directory

Sustained-release ocular drug delivery for retinal disease

Re-Vana Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing sustained-release drug delivery technologies for the treatment of serious retinal diseases. Its biodegradable hydrogel platform uses photo-crosslinking to form in-situ implants administered via intravitreal injection, enabling controlled release of biologics,…

Single-molecule fluorescence platform for rapid point-of-care pathogen detection

Pictura Bio is a medical technology company developing a rapid diagnostic platform that combines single-molecule fluorescent microscopy with deep learning to identify pathogens in clinical samples in under one minute. The platform uses a universal fluorescent label and a trained AI model to detect any known pathogen…

Novel small-molecule therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases

Nevrargenics is a UK-based biotech company developing novel small-molecule therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. Spun out of Durham University and built on research collaboration with the University of Aberdeen, the company uses a patented library of dual-activity retinoic acid receptor modulators designed to…

DNA testing and genetic analysis for bees and other pollinators

Beebytes is a Scottish social enterprise providing genetic testing and DNA analysis for honeybees and other pollinators. Its services examine honeybee ancestry and genetic admixture, while environmental DNA analysis helps identify floral forage used by bees and other pollinating insects. The resulting evidence…

Specialist renal pharmaceuticals and clinical nutrition products

Stanningley Pharma is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on products for patients with chronic kidney disease and other hospital medicine therapeutic areas. The company licenses, develops, and markets prescription medicines and Foods for Special Medical Purposes into the NHS, including a calcium acetate…

Cloud-based trusted research environment for health data science

Aridhia is a software company developing and operating a cloud-based Trusted Research Environment platform for biomedical and health sciences research. Its Aridhia DRE provides research hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions with secure, governed workspaces for accessing, managing, and…

AI-guided synthetic lethality drug discovery for oncology

Evariste is a drug discovery company developing small-molecule inhibitors of synthetic lethal targets in cancer. Its computational platform combines machine learning, multimodal biological data and molecular modelling to identify therapeutic targets, design candidate compounds and prioritise laboratory testing. The…

AI-ready toxicity datasets for preclinical drug discovery

Biolligence is a biotechnology company developing AI-ready toxicity datasets and predictive tools for the drug discovery industry. The company combines deep learning algorithms with stem cell-derived in vitro models and clinical data to generate mechanistic toxicity information aimed at reducing dependence on animal…

Photosynthesis-based microalgae cultivation for sustainable food ingredients

Arborea is a UK industrial biotechnology company developing a cultivation system for photosynthetic microorganisms including microalgae, diatoms and phytoplankton. The system uses sunlight and CO₂ as feedstocks to grow microscopic plants at scale, from which proteins, natural pigments and bioactive nutrients are…

Autonomous laboratory infrastructure for AI-ready biological data

Substrate Bio is a London biotechnology company developing AI-native automated laboratory infrastructure for biological data generation. Its platform combines robotic workcells, experimental orchestration software and structured data capture to support reproducible protein science and functional genomics workflows. It…

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…

Robotic lab automation hardware and software for life sciences workflows

Automata is a UK-based provider of robotic lab automation solutions for life sciences organisations. The company designs modular hardware and workflow management software that automate repetitive laboratory tasks such as sample handling, processing and analysis. Automata's platform is used by NHS trusts, academic…

In vivo lentiviral CAR/TCR cell therapy platform for ovarian cancer

Akimbo Bio is an early-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation in vivo lentiviral vector technology for cell therapy. Its lead platform carries a dual CAR/TCR payload designed for direct in vivo delivery, with an initial focus on ovarian cancer. The technology uses intelligent receptor crosstalk, in…

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…

Microbial and antimicrobial product developer using Bacillus fermentation

Genesis Biosciences is a global industrial biotechnology company developing and manufacturing microbial and antimicrobial products for cleaning, wastewater treatment, agriculture, aquaculture, and odour control applications. The company uses proprietary Bacillus fermentation and plant-derived actives to produce…

High-pressure cell disruptors and homogenisers for bioprocessing and research

Constant Systems is a UK manufacturer of high-pressure cell disruption and homogenisation equipment for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic research applications. Its instruments use a proprietary hydraulic design to process up to 99% of a sample at a precisely controlled target pressure, enabling reproducible…

Land-based Artemia farming for sustainable marine feed ingredients

Aquanzo is an industrial biotechnology company farming Artemia zooplankton on land to produce marine protein ingredients for aquaculture. Its controlled cultivation process uses nutrient-rich food-industry side streams and AI-assisted bioprocess monitoring to raise Artemia without harvesting wild marine resources. The…

Quantum-informed computational design of covalent drug candidates

Axiom Therapeutics is a London biotechnology company using molecular physics and machine learning to design covalent small-molecule medicines. Its computational drug-discovery platform models interactions between reactive compounds and biological targets, helping design selective inhibitors for difficult-to-drug…

Life science and defence technology campus near Salisbury

Porton Science Park is a life science and defence technology science park located on the Porton Down Science Campus in south Wiltshire, adjacent to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the UK Health Security Agency. Opened in 2018 and owned by Wiltshire Council, the park provides wet laboratory,…

Precision medicine platform matching cancer patients to optimal therapies

Pathway Bio is a precision oncology company developing a functional platform to predict treatment response in individual cancer patients. The platform combines multiomic tumour profiling, AI-driven modelling, and ex vivo microcancer technology to screen therapies against a biological avatar of the patient's own tumour…