UK Life Sciences Company Directory

Primary cell lines and functional ingredients for cultivated meat

Quest Meat is a biotechnology company supplying primary cell lines and developing edible protein ingredients for alternative-protein production. Its catalogue includes bovine, porcine and water buffalo muscle satellite cells and adipose-derived stem cells for cultivated meat research, with quality documents and…

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…

Integrated contract drug discovery from Cambridge and India

o2h is a contract research organisation operating an integrated drug discovery platform from Cambridge, UK, and Ahmedabad, India. Core services span medicinal chemistry, biology, DMPK, and non-GMP scale-up, supporting hit-to-lead optimisation through to IND-enabling studies. The company works across small molecule,…

Cellular agriculture and biomanufacturing platforms for sustainable food production

Newform Foods is an industrial biotechnology company developing cell-based production platforms for sustainable food and functional ingredients. The company provides animal and plant cell-line development, culture-media optimisation, bioprocess engineering and scalable cultivation technologies. Its platform supports…

Off-the-shelf cell therapies for cancer and rare diseases

Empyrean Therapeutics develops off-the-shelf cell therapies intended to make treatments for cancer and rare diseases more accessible. Its approach combines gene editing, stem cell programming and precise genetic control to engineer therapeutic cells. The company is developing cell platforms and manufacturing processes…

UK trade body for the industrial bioeconomy

The Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA) is the UK membership organisation representing companies involved in the production, processing, and distribution of bio-based, biodegradable, and compostable materials and chemicals. It advocates for policy frameworks that accelerate adoption of industrial…

Complex carbohydrate synthesis, catalogue products and CDMO services

Dextra Laboratories specialises in complex carbohydrate chemistry, supplying research products including oligosaccharides, monosaccharides, glycoconjugates and blood group antigens. It also offers contract development and manufacturing services for carbohydrate-based compounds, spanning discovery chemistry, process…

Veterinary pharmaceuticals developed and manufactured in Northern Ireland

Norbrook Laboratories is a vertically integrated veterinary pharmaceutical company developing, manufacturing and distributing medicines for farm and companion animals. Operating from three GMP-certified sites in Newry, the company produces a portfolio spanning injectables, tablets, pour-ons and oral solutions,…

Applied genetics and genomics services and distribution for DNA testing

Biosecure ID is a contract research organisation providing professional services and integrated workflow solutions for applied genetics and genomics testing. The company supports academic, clinical, and forensic laboratories with workflow validation, implementation, and turnkey project delivery across NGS, STR…

Analytical instruments, consumables and services for life science laboratories

Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited is the principal UK subsidiary of Agilent Technologies, Inc., a global provider of analytical instruments, software, consumables, and services for life science, diagnostic, and applied chemical laboratories. UK operations include a major R&D facility at Harwell Campus housing the…

Biodiversity-derived protein data and AI models for biological design

Basecamp Research is a London-based biotech company that collects biological samples from extreme environments across more than 26 countries, building a proprietary metagenomic database of over ten billion novel protein sequences from more than one million previously unrecorded species. This dataset trains large AI…

Antigenic immunomodulation therapies targeting autoimmune disease

Phaim Pharma is a biotech company developing disease-modifying therapeutics for autoimmune conditions using its proprietary platform. The platform is designed to reset the immune system by reintroducing disease-specific antigenic epitopes, suppressing the autoaggressive T cell responses that underlie conditions such…

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…

AI-driven automated flow chemistry platform for chemical process development

SOLVE Chemistry is a contract research and technology company providing AI-powered process development services to pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and specialty chemical manufacturers. Its automated flow chemistry laboratory collects dense kinetic datasets on chemical reactions at speed, training proprietary machine…

Automated instruments and consumables for cytogenetic and genomic laboratories

ADS Biotec develops and manufactures automated laboratory instruments and consumables for cytogenetic, pathology, and molecular biology applications. Its product range includes robotic systems for chromosome harvesting and spreading, HPLC columns for mRNA purification, and custom buffer and reagent manufacturing…

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…

AI platform predicting patient response to cancer immunotherapy

Curenetics is a medical technology company developing AI-powered tools to predict cancer patient responses to immunotherapy before treatment begins. Its platform integrates multi-omic genomic data, imaging profiles and clinical information to identify biomarkers of treatment efficacy and toxicity. The company also…

Plant-derived microfibrillated cellulose for sustainable paper and packaging

CelluComp is a Scottish industrial biotechnology company developing bio-based materials from agricultural by-products. Its proprietary Curran technology converts sugar beet pulp into microfibrillated cellulose platelets that improve strength, smoothness and barrier performance in paper, packaging and moulded fibre.…

AI imaging platform for lung and heart disease clinical trials

Qureight is a technology-driven imaging contract research organisation providing clinical data curation and AI-powered image analysis services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Its proprietary platform integrates CT imaging, biomarkers, and clinical metadata from complex respiratory and cardiovascular diseases,…

Institute researching molecular plant microbe interactions and disease resistance

The Sainsbury Laboratory is a research institute studying molecular plant microbe interactions to improve plant health and reduce crop losses. The Laboratory investigates innate immune recognition in plants and the engineering of novel immune receptors in crops. Its work includes developing genome editing tools to…