Ellie Horvath
At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Biotechnology companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Biotechnology Companies & Startups (London)
Wellcome Trust
| Founders | Sir Henry Wellcome |
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Wellcome Trust is a medical research charity that funds research that aims to protect and improving human and animal health.
Achilles Therapeutics
| Founders | Charles Swanton, Karl Peggs, Mark Lowdell, Sergio Quezada |
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Achilles Therapeutics is a developer of immunotherapies intended to offer next-generation, patient-specific therapies to treat cancer.
Eleusis
| Founders | Shlomi Raz |
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Clinical stage company established to unlock the therapeutic potential of psychedelics through mitigating and managing psychoactivity
Silence Therapeutics
| Founders | Unknown |
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Silence Therapeutics is a drug development company with a proprietary genetic medicine platform.
Quell Therapeutics
| Founders | Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, Giovanna Lombardi, Hans Stauss, Marc Martinez-Llordella |
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Quell Therapeutics is a cell therapy company
Verona Pharma
| Founders | Clive Page |
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Verona Pharma is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering new drugs for the treatment of chronic respiratory diseases.
Entocycle
| Founders | Keiran Olivares Whitaker |
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Entocycle’s automated insect farm produces environmentally friendly insect protein to feed farmed animals.
FabricNano
| Founders | Ferdinando Randisi, Grant Aarons |
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FabricNano is a cell-free biomanufacturing company that develops a DNA-based flow reactor to unlock the future of biochemistry.
Engitix
| Founders | Giuseppe Mazza |
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Engitix is operates as a tissue engineering company.
Daye
| Founders | Valentina Milanova |
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Daye creates category-defining products and services that set a new standard for medical research and scientific innovation.
Mereo Biopharma
| Founders | Denise Scots-Knight |
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Mereo is a new UK-based speciality biopharmaceutical company.
Enara Bio
| Founders | Drew Mark Pardoll, George Kassiotis, Houman Ashrafian |
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Ervaxx is illuminating the immune interface to develop new cancer therapies.
Alchemab Therapeutics
| Founders | Alex Leech, Ben Larman, Jane Osbourn, Rachael Bashford-Rogers, Uri Laserson |
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Alchemab Therapeutics is developing natural protective antibodies designed to keep people free of hard-to-treat diseases.
MiNA Therapeutics
| Founders | John J. Rossi, Nagy Habib, Pål Sætrom |
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MiNA Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapeutic medicines to harness gene activation mechanisms.
Atlas Biomed Group
| Founders | Andrey Perfilyev, Sergey Musienko |
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The Atlas DNA and gut microbiome tests evaluate your health status and provide personalised recommendations to improve wellbeing.
Kuur Therapeutics
| Founders | Gregg Sando |
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Kuur Therapeutics is committed to transforming the lives of patients with cancer & is leading the development cell therapies.
Ixaka
| Founders | Gaby Salem, Joe Dupere, Vicente Sáez González |
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Ixaka is a private cell and gene therapy company with a focus on the natural power of the body to cure disease.
Myovant Sciences
| Founders | Lynn Seely |
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Myovant Sciences is to deliver innovative women’s health and prostate cancer solutions by efficiently advancing new medicines to market.
Hoxton Farms
| Founders | Ed Steele, Max Jamilly |
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Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry.
Lifebit
| Founders | Maria Chatzou Dunford, Pablo Prieto Barja |
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Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
GammaDelta Therapeutics
| Founders | Adrian Hayday |
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GammaDelta Therapeutics is developing the potential of gamma delta (γδ) cells
Chronomics
| Founders | Charles Ball, Daniel Elías Martín Herranz, Robin Thompson, Toby Call, Tom Stubbs |
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Tech-bio company, providing access to a ‘bio-infrastructure’ to simplify and speed-up the use of biomarkers to improve everyday decisions.
Pulmocide
| Founders | Garth Rapeport, Pete Strong |
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Pulmocide is focused on the development of inhaled medicines for the treatment of viral and fungal infections of the respiratory tract.
EMMAC Life Sciences
| Founders | Antonio Costanzo, Ed McDermott |
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EMMAC is a medical cannabis company that works to join together the latest science and research with cutting-edge cultivation.
Nightstar Therapeutics
| Founders | Matthew J. During |
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Nightstar is biopharmaceutical company, focused on developing gene therapies for retinal dystrophies.
Multus Media
| Founders | Cai Linton, Kevin Pan, Reka Tron |
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Creating the next generation of animal-free growth media for the cultivated meat industry
Polymateria
| Founders | Jonathan Sieff, Lee Davy-Martin |
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Polymateria is a London-based startup advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution.
Arix Bioscience
| Founders | Robert Lyne |
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Arix Bioscience is a healthcare and life science company.
Gardin
| Founders | Sumanta Talukdar |
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Gardin develops optical phenotyping technology and analytics to optimise food production.
Desktop Genetics
| Founders | Edward Perello, Riley Doyle, Victor Dillard |
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Desktop Genetics is an international company to help researchers discover and treat the root genetic causes of human disease.
Sixfold Bioscience
| Founders | Anna Perdrix Rosell, George Foot, Zuzanna Brzosko |
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Sixfold Bioscience develops and researches on biotechnology advances for RNA therapies.
Leucid Bio
| Founders | John Maher |
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Leucid is progressing novel cart therapies that produce a better and more durable response.
Clustermarket
| Founders | Johannes Solzbach, Niklas Friedberg, Tobias Wingbergmühle |
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One lab management platform that brings people, equipment and data together – no matter where they are.
Pear Bio
| Founders | Duleek Ranatunga |
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Pear Bio is a biotechnology company that develops biomedical technologies for cancer treatment by testing patients’ drug resistance.
Unibio International
| Founders | Ebbe Busch Larsen |
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Unibio is operating in the biotechnology sector with core competences within bacterial fermentation.
bio-bean
| Founders | Arthur Kay |
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bio-bean is a U.K.-based green company that offers its users with processes of recycling and waste management solutions.
Adendra Therapeutics
| Founders | Caetano Reis e Sousa, Raj Mehta |
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Adendra Therapeutics wants to use new insights into dendritic cell biology to develop a novel type of immunotherapy.
BenevolentAI
| Founders | Brent Gutekunst, Ivan Griffin, Ken Mulvany, Michael Brennan |
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BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Relation Therapeutics
| Founders | Benjamin Swerner, Charles Roberts, Jake Taylor-King |
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Relation Therapeutics engages in humanizing drug discovery and development.
Skipping Rocks Lab
| Founders | Pierre Paslier, Rodrigo García González |
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Skipping Rocks Lab develops natural and biodegradable packaging for liquids made from seaweed extract.
Mytos
| Founders | Ali Afshar, Ignacio Willats |
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Mytos is building a fully-automated cell manufacture platform for Pharma
Nuntius Therapeutics
| Founders | Albert Kwok, Benita Nagel |
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Nuntius Therapeutics develops cell-specific DNA, RNA, and CRISPR therapies.
Puraffinity
| Founders | Ben Reeve, Gabriella Santosa, Henrik Hagemann |
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Puraffinity develops precision materials to target chemicals, with an initial focus on PFAS in water
Novoic
| Founders | Emil Fristed, Jack Weston |
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Novoic is a digital biotech company that develops AI-based speech analysis.
Complement Therapeutics
| Founders | Unknown |
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Complement Therapeutics operates as a preclinical stage company.
LOQUS23 THERAPEUTICS
| Founders | David Reynolds |
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LoQus23 is a DDF-formed company focussing on targeting DNA damage repair pathways to treat Huntington’s disease.
Prokarium
| Founders | Rocky Cranenburgh |
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Prokarium is biopharmaceutical company pioneering the field of microbial immunotherapy.
Purespring Therapeutics
| Founders | Moin Saleem |
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Purespring Therapeutics is an AAV gene therapy company focused on the kidney globally.
Capella BioScience
| Founders | STEVE HOLMES |
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Capella Bioscience engages in the discovery and development of monoclonal antibodies.
Baseimmune
| Founders | Ariane Gomes, Joshua Blight, Phillip Kemlo |
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Baseimmune is a biotech startup founded to create the next generation of vaccines.
Arborea
| Founders | Julian Melchiorri |
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Arborea is industrialising photosynthesis to expand the world’s food supply
Peptone
| Founders | Kamil Tamiola, Matt Heberling |
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Peptone is a UK-based startup that is helping pharmaceutical companies unravel the secrets of proteins.
Exogene
| Founders | Andrea Mambrini, Federico Paoletti |
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Exogene is a biotechnology company accelerating target & TCR discovery for cancer cell therapies using AI-enabled TCR-antigen screening.
Zedsen
| Founders | Daniel Honeywell |
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Zedsen provides biosensors that create a 3-Dimensional electrical field and gathers biological signals within a human body.
Dunad Therapeutics
| Founders | Diana Kraskouskaya, Patrick T. Gunning |
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Dunad Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of next-generation targeted protein degradation therapies.
Shivom
| Founders | Axel Schumacher, George Church, Gourish Singla |
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Optimising the way genomic & other healthcare is shared, secured & analysed.
Shellworks
| Founders | Amir Afshar, Insiya Jafferjee |
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Shellworks is a biotech startup on a mission to make plastic waste a thing of the past.
Treos Bio
| Founders | John Hautman |
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Treos Bio, Inc. develops precision cancer immunotherapies tailored to patients’ genetics.
Epsilogen
| Founders | Sophia Karagiannis |
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Epsilogen is a developer of an immuno-oncology company intended to develop immunoglobulin antibodies to treat cancer.
Bactobio
| Founders | Daniel Blicher Holst Hansen |
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Bactobio uses sequencing, machine learning, and cultivation techniques to harvest novel solutions from biological dark matter.
Aptorum Group
| Founders | Ian Huen |
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Aptorum Group is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of therapeutic assets to treat diseases with unmet medical needs.
Rightangled
| Founders | Abdullah Sabyah, Floriane Rousse Marquet |
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Medtech specialised in Genetics, Blood and infection testing. Service is delivers through a platform that connects users with specialists.
IAG, Image Analysis Group
| Founders | Olga Kubassova |
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IAG, imaging expert company helps to accelerate novel drug development by using the right analytical tools and modern trial infrastructure.
CGT Catapult
| Founders | Matthew Durdy |
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CGT Catapult is a centre of innovation, with the core purpose of building cell and gene therapy sector in the UK.
Sanome
| Founders | Benedikt von Thungen, Marc van der Schee |
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Transforming diagnostics for all
MediSieve
| Founders | George Frodsham, Quentin Pankhurst |
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MediSieve is a therapeutics company developing a platform technology for the treatment of blood-borne diseases.
Virax Biolabs
| Founders | Cameron Shaw, Greg Aldridge, James Foster, Mark Ternouth, Tomasz George |
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Virax Biolabs is an innovative Biotechnology company focused on the prevention, detection and diagnosis of viral diseases
Resolution Therapeutics
| Founders | John Campbell, Stuart Forbes |
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Resolution Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing macrophage cell therapy to treat chronic diseases.
Scindo
| Founders | Benjamin G. Davis, Gustaf Hemberg, Juliet Sword |
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Biotechnology company
GTN
| Founders | Noor Shaker, Vid Stojevic |
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GTN innovates a quantum machine learning technology to transform drug discovery.
OxSyBio
| Founders | Hagan Bayley |
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OxSyBio is developing 3D printing techniques to produce a range of tissue-like & functional tissues for medical research.
Ori Biotech
| Founders | Chris Mason, Farlan Veraitch |
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Ori Biotech is a developer of a manufacturing platform used to help patients get access to lifesaving treatments.
Yaqrit
| Founders | Rajiv Jalan |
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Yaqrit Limited is a UK-based company specialising in interventions in liver disease based on 20 years of research and development at UCL.
Cotinga Pharmaceuticals
| Founders | Wayne Danter |
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Cotinga Pharmaceuticals discovers and develops drug therapies for diseases.
Acurable
| Founders | Esther Rodriguez Villegas, Emilio Sanz Pereiras |
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The first wearable medical device able to accurately diagnose and manage respiratory conditions at home
Multiomic Health
| Founders | Alasdair Thong, Robert Thong, Serge Faguet |
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Multiomic Health is building a precision therapeutics discovery platform for metabolic syndrome diseases
Kuano
| Founders | David Wright, Jarryl D’Oyley, Parminder Ruprah, Vid Stojevic |
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Kuano provides innovative quantum and AI solutions for drug discovery and design.
genomes.io
| Founders | Aldo de Pape, Chris Griffiths, Mark Hahnel |
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genomes.io is a human genome is the blueprint to what makes you who you are.
LIfT BioSciences
| Founders | Alex Blyth |
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LIfT BioSciences is a socially-minded Biotech start-up that develops a portfolio of potentially life-saving immuno-oncology cell therapies.
Grow Group
| Founders | Ben Langley, Ian Atkinson |
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Grow is a biopharmaceutical company focused solely on cannabis based medicines and improving global access to those medicines.
Autifony Therapeutics
| Founders | Charles Large |
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Autifony Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing medicines to treat hearing disorders such as hearing loss and tinnitus.
Istesso
| Founders | Lisa Patel, Sam Williams |
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Istesso is a drug discovery and development company working in the field of immunometabolism.
Collagen Solutions
| Founders | Stewart White |
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Collagen Solutions Plc is a global provider of medical grade collagen formulations and components for use in regenerative medicine,
Kesios Therapeutics
| Founders | Guido Franzoso, Laura Tornatore, Menotti Ruvo |
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Kesios Therapeutics, a London, UK-based oncology drug discovery company
Toraphene
| Founders | Gaute Juliussen |
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Toraphene is a biodegradable, compostable, and commercially-viable plastic packaging substitute and make plastic packaging obsolete.
Ixico
| Founders | Derek Hill |
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Ixico is a U.K.-based company that provides clinical trial services worldwide.
Orchard Therapeutics
| Founders | Andrea Spezzi, Ben Auspitz |
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Orchard Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients through innovative gene therapies.
Autolus
| Founders | Martin Pule |
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Autolus is in T-cell programming and manufacturing technology.
Fortuna Fix
| Founders | Jan-Eric Ahlfors, Vikram Lamba |
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Clinical-stage biotech company .
Evodental
| Founders | Rajesh Vijayanarayanan |
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EvoDental, a dental implant center, provides dental implant treatment solutions.
Imutex
| Founders | Unknown |
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Imutex, a startup with a Phase IIa-ready universal flu vaccine.
FarmaTrust
| Founders | Raja Sharif |
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FarmaTrust is the most efficient global tracking system which provides security to both patients and the pharmaceutical industry.
Plasticell
| Founders | Yen Choo |
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Plasticell offers a cell-based screening technology for the discovery of small molecule drugs that regenerate cells of the body.
Abcodia
| Founders | Julie Barnes, Michael De Grado |
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Abcodia is an innovative biotech company engaged in the validation and discovery of molecular biomarkers.
PrEP Biopharm
| Founders | Bruce A. Malcolm, Ryan Muldoon |
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PrEP Biopharm is a developer of respiratory infectious disease products
Hyris
| Founders | Alberto Amati, Stefano Lo Priore |
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Hyris is offers an integrated platform for decentralized nucleic acid testing Products.
iOx Therapeutics Ltd.
| Founders | Vincenzo Cerundolo |
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iOx Therapeutics Ltd. operates as an immuno-oncology company.
Synthace
| Founders | Markus Gershater, Sean Ward |
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Synthace is a Life Sciences R&D cloud platform that enables experiments to be automated, with the resultant data seamlessly integrated.
Tropic Biosciences
| Founders | Eyal Maori, Gilad Gershon, Ofir Meir |
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Tropic Biosciences is a pioneering leader in the development of novel high-performing commercial tropical crop varieties and traits.
Contura
| Founders | Henry Geoffrey McMillan |
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Contura is a privately owned, international, specialist pharmaceutical company with a key focus on urology and urogynaecology.
BrightCure
| Founders | Chiara Heide, Simon May |
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BrightCure is a femcare company developing intimate care products to fight resistant UTI bacteria and promote a healthy vaginal microbiome.
