UK Life Sciences Company Directory

Laboratory consumables and equipment supplier for research facilities

Optimaze is a laboratory consumables and equipment supplier providing research facilities with pipette tips, plates, instruments, and related lab supplies. The company stocks products for next-working-day dispatch and sources surplus laboratory equipment to offer cost-effective solutions to research organisations. It…

Gene therapy platform delivering precision cancer treatments

Trogenix is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing precision gene therapies for aggressive solid tumours. Its platform uses proprietary synthetic super-enhancers, engineered genetic constructs delivered via AAV vectors, to selectively activate in cancer cells and simultaneously trigger tumour cell death and…

UK life sciences trade association and membership network

The BioIndustry Association is the UK's trade association for the biotechnology and life sciences sector, representing start-ups, scale-ups, pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, investors and service providers since 1989. It conducts policy advocacy with government and regulatory bodies, produces sector…

AI-powered gut microbiome analysis for personalised clinical nutrition

Enbiosis is a biotechnology company combining whole-genome gut microbiome sequencing with artificial intelligence to generate personalised nutrition, dietary, and supplement recommendations for patients with gastrointestinal disorders. Its B2B platform is used by healthcare professionals including gastroenterologists…

Technology innovation centre for process scale-up and manufacturing

CPI is a UK innovation centre and social enterprise that helps companies develop, scale and commercialise new products and processes across pharmaceuticals, bioprocessing, health technology and sustainable manufacturing. As a founding member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, CPI provides access to specialist…

Chemistry-led CRO and CDMO for pharmaceutical and diagnostics R&D

High Force Research is an independent chemistry CRO and CDMO providing synthetic chemistry, process development, and GMP manufacturing services to the pharmaceutical, biotech, and diagnostics industries. Services span route design, complex synthesis, scale-up, and analytical development through to regulatory-grade…

Programmable synthetic organelle tools for protein expression and purification

Ailurus is a synthetic biology company that develops programmable biological systems and sells them as research tools to life science customers. Its current product uses synthetic membraneless organelles engineered through genetic code to streamline protein expression and purification in bacterial hosts, reducing…

Quantitative pharmacology and modelling consultancy for drug development

Physiomics is a life science consultancy providing model-informed drug development, quantitative pharmacology, and biostatistics services to biopharma and biotech clients. Services include PK/PD and quantitative systems pharmacology modelling, clinical trial design, biostatistics, and personalised dosing tools. Its…

Human in vitro models for disease and drug research

Queen Mary Centre for Predictive in vitro Models is a multidisciplinary research centre developing human-relevant laboratory models for studying disease and evaluating potential treatments. Its researchers combine organ-on-a-chip systems, organoids, three-dimensional cell cultures and bioengineering methods to…

Gene editing platform restoring disease resistance in crop species

Resurrect Bio is a plant biotechnology company developing disease-resistant crops through a proprietary gene editing platform. Using computational biology and high-throughput plant screening, the company identifies and restores native resistance genes that have been suppressed by pathogens or lost through selective…

AAV gene therapy platform targeting podocyte-mediated kidney disease

Purespring Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech developing AAV-based gene therapies for chronic kidney disease. Its platform delivers therapeutic transgenes directly to podocytes, specialised cells implicated in the majority of renal diseases, enabling disease-modifying treatment of both rare monogenic and more…

Engineered therapeutic red blood cells for rare metabolic and other diseases

Scarlet Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing a platform for generating therapeutic red blood cells (tRBCs). Erythroid cell lines are genetically engineered to produce red blood cells carrying high concentrations of therapeutic proteins, exploiting their natural tissue distribution, 120-day circulating…

Experimental diabetes research into insulin and metabolic therapies

Centre for Diabetes is an Ulster University research centre in Coleraine investigating the molecular mechanisms of diabetes and emerging treatment approaches. Its research includes pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction, insulin secretion, glycation, glucose-regulating peptides and experimental antidiabetic compounds. The…

GC-IMS analytical instruments for clinical, food and environmental testing

Imspex Diagnostics is a Welsh analytical instruments company developing and distributing Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry platforms for clinical diagnostics, food safety and environmental analysis. Its GC-IMS technology detects target compounds and clinical biomarkers at parts-per-billion sensitivity,…

Injectable biomaterial gel to treat degenerative disc disease

Orthoson is a medtech company developing micro-invasive injectable treatments for chronic back pain caused by degenerative disc disease. Its lead product, a patented pNIPAM-DMAc co-polymer hydrogel, is designed to be injected into the intervertebral disc, where it gels in-situ to restore the mechanical and biological…

Genetic insights to guide drug discovery and development

Sequoia Genetics is a contract research organisation applying human genetic data to inform drug discovery and clinical development. The company works with pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, investors, and academic institutions to generate and interpret genetic insights that can guide target validation and…

Multiplexed LC-MS proteomics for biomarker development and clinical trials

Inoviv is a bioanalytical contract research company providing multiplexed, quantitative LC-MS targeted proteomics services to pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Its platform supports biomarker discovery, patient stratification, companion diagnostic development, and treatment efficacy monitoring across clinical and…

Rare and serious disease therapeutics with Cambridge R&D hub

Insmed is a US biopharmaceutical company with commercial-stage and late-pipeline products spanning respiratory, inflammatory and rare neurological diseases. Its Cambridge facility at Babraham Research Campus, established through the 2023 acquisition of Adrestia, leads drug discovery using the company's synthetic…

Managed life science campus near Cambridge with flexible R&D space

Chesterford Research Park is a managed life sciences campus across 250 acres near Little Chesterford, Essex, within the Cambridge research cluster. The park provides flexible laboratory and office space for biotechnology, pharmaceutical and technology companies, with approximately 350,000 sq ft occupied and a…

Oral thermostable vaccine platform for infectious diseases

iosBio is a biotechnology company developing thermostable oral vaccines using adenoviral vector delivery. Its platform protects vaccine vectors to survive stomach transit and release in the lower small intestine, inducing mucosal and systemic immunity without cold chain requirements or needle administration. The lead…