Top Life Science Companies and Startups in the UK

4 years ago

This article showcases some of the most popular players in the Life Science space. Our analysts selected these companies for a variety of reasons. This list may include both state and private ventures providing the most value within the Life Science industry.

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Top Life Science Companies


Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group publishes scientific and medical information in print and online.

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News-Medical.Net

News Medical is an online, open-access medical information provider for healthcare professionals, medical researchers and engaged consumers.

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Abcam

An innovator in life science reagents and tools serving life science researchers globally to achieve their mission, faster.

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National Institute for Health Research

National Institute for Health Research is a biotechnology company that provides facilities and technology for researchers to thrive.

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Kolabtree

Find & hire experts, top postdocs & PhDs, as research collaborators for your academic or business projects.Speed up your research work!

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Oxford Instruments

Oxford Instruments is an international corporation that produces technology for a variety of fields, including healthcare and agriculture.

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The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

A centre of excellence in innovation, with the core purpose of building a world-leading cell and gene therapy sector in the UK.

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LSX Ltd

The network for life science executive leaders

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Babraham Institute

The Babraham Institute is a world-class research institution.

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CiteAb Ltd.

CiteAb Ltd. is a life science data provider that helps researchers and their suppliers make more informed decisions.

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The James Hutton Institute

The James Hutton Institute delivers fundamental and applied science to drive the sustainable use of land and natural resources.

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Human Tissue Authority

Human Tissue Authority

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COMPASS Pathways

Compass Pathways is a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.

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Ashfield Healthcare

Ashfield Healthcare is provides outsourced healthcare services to pharmaceutical, device and biotech companies.

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Clustermarket

The world’s leading platform for laboratory equipment

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Earlham Institute

Earlham Institute is a research institute focused on exploring living systems by applying computational science and biotechnology.

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Daye

Daye creates category-defining products and services that set a new standard for medical research and scientific innovation.

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Traka

Traka offers key management, secure storage, access control, and process control services to support strategic business streams.

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Arctoris

Arctoris is the world’s first fully-automated drug discovery platform providing Data-as-a-Service.

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Faculty of 1000

Faculty of 1000 is changing the way science is communicated – powered by our Faculty of over 8,000 leading experts in Biology and Medicine.

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Linguamatics

Linguamatics provides an NLP-based text mining software suit for processing text-based content.

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The Native Antigen Company

The Native Antigen specialises in the development and manufacture of native and recombinant viral and bacterial antigens, antibodies.

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BiopharmaTrend.com

Market and Industry Research in Drug Discovery/Biotech — covering science and business trends.

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Cambridge Bioscience

Cambridge Bioscience is a specialist distributor of life science research products.

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Pubrica Healthcare

Pubrica’s services span all phases of Scientific Medical and Academic Writing, Editing, and Publishing.

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Asia Research News

Asia Research News connects researchers with international media, policy makers, fellow collaborators and the science-hungry public.

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Lifebit

Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.

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LGC

LGC is an international life sciences measurement and testing company.

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Antibodies.com

Antibodies.com is a leading supplier of protein research tools. Discover more from our range of distinct antibodies, proteins, and assays.

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evonetix

Evonetix is a provider of a desktop platform designed to synthesize DNA at unprecedented accuracy and scale.

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Global Engage

Global Engage meetings are at the forefront of life science and health research.

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Kinapse

Kinapse provides advisory, capability building and operational services to the life sciences industries.

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Optibiotix Health

Optibiotix Health discovers and develops microbial strains, compounds and formulations, which modulate the human microbiome.

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Genomics

Genomics plc aiming to lead the genomic transformation of healthcare.

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GPE Scientific Ltd

UK’s biggest Laboratory Equipment Supplier

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C4X Discovery

C4X Discovery brings a new dimension to drug discovery. Using its unique NMR-based technique to determine 3D molecular.

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Mediwales

Mediwales is the life science network for Wales.

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Bento lab

Bento·lab is a powerful, personal laboratory that enables scientists, artists.

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EuroScicon

Euroscicon is the longest running independent life science events company with a predominantly academic client base.

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BioTeq

Providing human implantable technology solutions, from RFID and NFC implants to complete bespoke systems and hardware installations

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Hyris

Hyris is offers an integrated platform for decentralized nucleic acid testing Products.

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Synthace

Synthace uses open source technology to make process in biotechnology move faster.

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Oxford Expression Technologies

Oxford Expression Technologies is a biotechnology company in the recombinant protein expression field, and baculovirus expression.

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Bioline AgroSciences

Bioline produces and markets a wide range of invertebrate biological control organisms which are used for control of insect pests.

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Sphere Fluidics

Sphere Fluidics develops products for use in single cell analysis and characterization, and provides associated collaborative R&D services.

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Fluidic Analytics

Fluidic Analytics designs, develops and manufactures tools that seek to revolutionise the way proteins are characterised.

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SEC Recruitment

SEC Recruitment are a life sciences & IT recruitment agency that lives by four core values of trust, honesty, integrity & commitment.

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Veristat

Veristat, a full service Clinical Research Organization (CRO).

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MediPen

MediPen is an all natural, slick, stylish and completely legal way to enjoy using legal cannabinoids.

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Sparrho

Sparrho lead the world in democratising science using augmented intelligence.

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Humane Technologies

Humane Technologies is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures laboratory equipment and assays.

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Phlexglobal

Established in 1997 Phlexglobal delivers a specialist comprehensive service for all administrative aspects of the clinical trial process

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Refeyn

Refeyn is specialising in label-free single molecule imaging and mass measurement.

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CatSci

CatSci provides innovative process research and development services to emerging, mid-sized and large pharma.

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DYSIS Medical

DYSIS Medical is focused on developing imaging systems for the non-invasive, in-vivo detection of cancerous and pre-cancerous lesions.

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PHASE II International

PHASE II is a full service communications agency serving life science companies.

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Gilbert Meher

Gilbert Meher Search & Selection is an employee-focused, multi-disciplined recruitment business

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Engitix

Engitix is operates as a tissue engineering company.

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V7

Automated training data annotation and neural network development for image recognition

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Charlton Morris

Charlton Morris is a leading life science and health care consultancy company located in Leeds.

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International Society of Hypertension

The World’s Premier Blood Pressure Society.

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CareCube Solutions

Carecube is a networked digital workflow system designed by cardiologists.

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Sesmos

Sesmos is develops drug candidates for oncology and inflammatory diseases.

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Deallus

Deallus is a Global Life-Sciences Management Consultancy.

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Science4you

Science4you offers a wide variety of educational toys and games. Distributes to 35 countries worldwide

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Science Animated – Sci Ani

We are a scientific communication agency who develop engaging and accessible animations based on a specific researcher’s work.

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Nature Metrics

Nature Metrics is an award-winning technology start-up using cutting-edge genetic techniques to monitor biodiversity.

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The Barkby Group

Barkby has built on a tradition of entrepreneurship and business acumen, with a diverse business portfolio across emerging markets.

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Lifescience Dynamics

Lifescience Dynamics is a decision support firm helping life science companies.

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Oxitec

Oxitec develops an environment-friendly technology for the control of significant insect pests to prevent diseases and agricultural damage.

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HigherSteaks

HigherSteaks is about providing with that juicy, tender, and delicious meat they love but without harming their health, planet, and animals.

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Deep Science Ventures

A new paradigm for applied science. DSV brings together scientists to seize crucial opportunities and redefine industries.

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Cobra Biologics

Cobra Biologics is providing a biologics and pharmaceuticals service.

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CN Bio Innovations

CN Bio develops human organ-on-a-chip platforms for the testing and development of therapeutics for serious human diseases.

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Xanthella

Xanthella designs and manufactures photobioreactors for the culture of photosynthetic cells like microalgae or cyanobacteria.

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Mogrify

Mogrify® is a biotechnology company that develops proprietary tailored cell conversions that power every cell therapy.

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Scientific Generics

Scientific Generics is a company that provides solutions to in depth problem solving in research and development departments.

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Jellagen

Jellagen Pty Ltd is a medtech company offering high grade native collagen sourced from jellyfish.

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Clinithink

Clinithink offers cloud-based text processing capability to support data analytics, coding, and decision support in healthcare applications.

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PharmEnable

PharmEnable has developed a rapid and cost effective way to identify better chemical starting points to drive the discovery.

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Nitritex

Nitritex is a manufacturer of premium cleanroom and healthcare Life Sciences consumables.

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Puraffinity

Puraffinity develops biologically derived materials for industrial water treatment.

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Biotronics3D

Biotronics3D develops and markets innovative software applications for the diagnostic imaging industry.

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Ardana Bioscience

Ardana Bioscience is a specialty pharmaceutical company.

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Cellular Agriculture Ltd

Developing second generation bioreactor technology for the cultured meat industry.

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Peak Analysis & Automation

Peak Analysis & Automation laboratory automation company that assists pharmaceutical and biotech companies improve their manual R&D.

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Isansys Lifecare

Isansys Lifecare is a new generation medical device and healthcare information company.

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Qures

Nature has the answer: Chemistry is the key. Qures develops novel antibiotics.

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Rightangled

Medtech specialised in Genetics, Blood and infection testing. Service is delivers through a platform that connects users with specialists.

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Bio-Images Drug Delivery

Class leading experts in formulation work and scintigraphic clinical trials.

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LIfT BioSciences

LIfT BioSciences is a socially-minded Biotech start-up that develops a portfolio of potentially life-saving immuno-oncology cell therapies.

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Medicxi Ventures

Medicxi is a life sciences-focused investment firm.

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Lightox

Lightox has developed a unique range of molecular tools for use in imaging, therapeutics and assay development.

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The Electrospinning Company

The Electrospinning Company is a provider of electrospun nanofibre innovations, developing solutions to industrial challenges.

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MIP Diagnostics

A synthetic antibody company based in East Midlands, UK.

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iQur

iQur designs vaccines to provide protection against major global health challenges

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CombiGen

CombiGen is a combination package for dogs, cats and horses that has recently been developed especially for vets.

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Inovus Medical

The perfect package for any general surgical trainees or residents.

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Nuclera

We make gene and protein writing accessible at your benchtop.

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Gooch & Housego

Gooch & Housego is a global leader in photonics technology.

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Independent Clinical Services

Independent Clinical Services is a provider of health, life sciences, and social care staffing services to the health sector.

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Touch Bionics

Touch Bionics Inc., is a Livingston, Scotland, UK-based developer of advanced upper-limb prosthetics.

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