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The latest news from UKI2S and our portfolio companies

Coins

Funding future innovations – UKI2S speaks to OBN

22nd April 2020

UKI2S provides its insights into early stage investment for life science companies and the key things investors are looking for.
bioprocessing technology

MicrofluidX raises £1.4m in seed funding to develop novel cell therapy bioprocessing technology

20th April 2020

MicrofluidX announces it has raised £1.4m in seed funding from leading seed investors UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), Longwall Ventures…
Richard Anderson

Corporate communications in the COVID-19 crisis

9th April 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, science-based companies are having to adjust their communications strategies.
Counting money

New analysis confirms value of UKI2S investing public money to commercialise public science

30th March 2020

The UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) has published an independent economic analysis showing how its investment and continuing support…
Lab work

GyreOx announces seed funding to develop novel therapeutics targeting intracellular proteins implicated in cancer and autoimmune diseases

11th March 2020

GyreOx Therapeutics (GyreOx), developing its novel MACRO platform, has launched today with backing from UKI2S and LifeArc.
Barbara Domayne-Hayman

How to build a start-up: Launching early stage science companies

10th February 2020

Barbara Domayne-Hayman is an expert in supporting early stage companies in the UK life sciences industry, both as an entrepreneur and now also on the investment side.
Ikarovec

Ophthalmic gene therapy company Ikarovec launches with £2.5m seed funding

5th February 2020

Founded by UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) with co-investment from LifeArc & Parkwalk to advance a diabetic macular edema gene therapy and other pipeline products.
che

Expert Interview with serial academic founder Professor Che Connon

6th January 2020

Starting a company will always be daunting, but what specific factors should university spin-outs consider to help the process run smoothly?

lab work

UKI2S, Catapult Ventures and Jonathan Milner invest £500K in gene modulation newcomer Pencil Biosciences

11th December 2019

UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), Catapult Ventures’ GM&C Life Sciences Fund and Jonathan Milner are pleased to announce an investment in Pencil Biosciences…
ATELERIX LTD

Meet the rising stars of the biotech sector at Genesis 2019

3rd December 2019

At this year’s Genesis Conference, Oliver Sexton, Investment Director at UKI2S, will be introducing some of the brightest and best rising stars of the biotech industry.
Meeting

Policy leaders share ambitious vision for increased R&D investment post-election

27th November 2019

With the General Election now well-underway and the main party manifestos published, what is the policy outlook for science and technology in the next Parliament?
lab work

Spin out secures £1.1M for ground-breaking ‘supercharged’ cell therapies to treat solid tumours

25th November 2019

A University of Bristol spin-out company has raised £1.1 million in funding to develop next generation cell therapies that could open new ways to treat solid tumours…
Linear Diagnostics

Rapid test for gonorrhoea and chlamydia to be developed by University of Birmingham spinout

25th November 2019

University of Birmingham spinout Linear Diagnostics Ltd has raised £2m to develop a rapid test for chlamydia and gonorrhoea which can detect infection from a single sample, allowing diagnosis and treatment in a single patient visit.
Tropic Bioscience selecting talent for your startup

Expert Interview with Gilad Gershon: Selecting the right talent for your start-up

20th November 2019

The success of the UK in starting and growing biotech companies is well known, but for most people the sector is synonymous only with healthcare and new medicines.

ATELERIX LTD

Sanj Kumar joins Atelerix as Chief Business Officer

19th November 2019

Cambridge and Newcastle, UK – Atelerix, pioneers in the storage and transport of cells at room temperature, announced today that it has significantly expanded…
UKI2S win OBN award

OBN Awards Winner Announcement – UKI2S

8th November 2019

UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) is delighted to announce it is has been awarded ‘Best Sector Support Organisation’ at the 11th Annual OBN Awards celebration last night.
Robert Haigh

Expert Interview with Robert Haigh: Top Tips for Biopharma Start-ups

31st October 2019

Despite so much political and economic uncertainty, the UK life sciences start-up sector continues to thrive.
Earth, from space

UKI2S Innovate Accelerator reaches entrepreneurial start-ups in all parts of the UK

23rd October 2019

Companies have raised over 6x more investment thanks to grant funding. The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) has celebrated the first anniversary…
Growth and money

Medical device company C-Major Medical secures equity investment

7th October 2019

C-Major Medical, a medical device product development company based at Sci-Tech Daresbury, using its innovative technology platform to radically reduce the number of needle stick injuries (NSI’s) globally…
Medication

Procarta receives carb-x award of up to $9.2 million

17th September 2019

Procarta Biosystems, a privately held UK-based biotech company, today announced a CARB-X award of up to $9.2 million to progress its pipeline of antibiotic precision medicines.
Medication

The NHS leads the way with world’s first drug ‘subscription’ scheme to tackle global antimicrobial resistance crisis

5th September 2019

Having saved millions of lives across the planet, antibiotics are beginning to fail us: indiscriminate use in humans and animals has led to a crisis of drug resistant infections.

ATELERIX LTD

Atelerix Consortium Awarded £267,000 Innovate UK Grant for collaboration with the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and Rexgenero on Cell Therapy Stabilisation Technologies

21st August 2019

Atelerix, pioneers in the storage and transport of cells at room temperature, today announces that it has been awarded a grant of £267,000…
David Lawrence UKI2S

Sharing the Secrets of Start-up Success

20th August 2019

Small companies are better than big businesses at maintaining a culture of innovation. David Lawrence from the UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund explores the secrets to their success and discusses how venture capitalists identify start-ups with potential.
seedling

Supporting start-ups to maximise success for both the company and the industry

6th August 2019

After a busy year so far, the summer lull is the time for a much-needed holiday, as well as offering the chance to get on top of the growing pile of admin on my desk.

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