UK Life Sciences Company Directory

Virus-like particle vaccine platform for infectious disease and diagnostics

iQur is a London-based biotechnology company developing vaccines using its proprietary tandem core virus-like particle platform. The technology uses the hepatitis B virus core…

Programmable biological manufacturing of sustainable designer chemicals

Lypo is an Edinburgh-based biotechnology company developing a platform for the programmable manufacture of high-performance chemicals from sustainable and waste-derived…

Off-the-shelf Natural Killer cell therapies for solid and blood cancers

NK:IO develops cancer immunotherapies based on human Natural Killer cells, harnessing the body's innate immune system as an alternative to T-cell-based approaches. The company's…

Bacteriophage-integrated antibacterial textiles for surgical implant infection prevention

Oxford Silk Phage Technologies is a biotechnology company developing antibacterial biomaterials that integrate bacteriophages into silk-based medical textiles, for use in surgical…

Generative AI and quantum chemistry platform for de novo enzyme design

Xyme is a biotechnology company developing a generative AI and quantum chemistry platform for designing novel enzymes from first principles. Its approach combines computational…

Global biopharma focused on severe neurological and immunological diseases

UCB Pharma is the UK subsidiary of UCB S.A., a Belgian biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of treatments for severe neurological and immunological…

Dark genome platform identifying first-in-class targets for autoimmune disease

Nucleome Therapeutics is a drug discovery company using 3D genome mapping to identify therapeutic targets encoded in the non-coding regions of the human genome. Its platform…

Benchtop platform for rapid cell-free protein expression and screening

Nuclera is a Cambridge-based biotechnology company developing benchtop systems for rapid protein expression and screening. Its discovery platform integrates cell-free protein…

Oxygen-generating nanoparticles to overcome hypoxia in solid tumours

StimOxyGen is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company developing pH-responsive nanoparticle formulations to address tumour hypoxia, a major barrier to effective cancer…

Pre-clinical platelet function testing for drug discovery and safety

Platelet Services is a contract research organisation specialising in pre-clinical platelet function testing for pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients. The company provides…

3D immune-microtumour platform for cancer treatment selection

Pear Bio is a biotechnology company that tests cancer treatment efficacy directly on patient-derived tumour samples using three-dimensional immune-microtumour cultures and…

Small molecule inhibitors targeting somatic expansion in neurodegeneration

LoQus23 Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing oral small molecule inhibitors of DNA mismatch repair for the treatment of Huntington's disease and other triplet repeat…