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Top 25 Biotechnology research companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 283 biotechnology research companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 5,783 professional contacts across them, including 1,702 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers biotechnology research companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest biotechnology research companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,063 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Abcam, we believe the scientific community goes further, faster when we go there together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 433 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whether you’re developing molecular diagnostic tests, clinical genomics assays, novel oligo therapeutics or using genotyping to develop improved, sustainable crops - high-quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Labman is a global leader in providing lab technology, manufacturing skids & software to enable and enhance science.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Huntingdon Life Sciences was founded in 1952.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Horizon Discovery, formerly of PerkinElmer, and now part of the Revvity family, drives the application of gene editing and gene modulation to enable world-leading academic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Biocatalysts is a biotechnology company producing speciality enzymes at commercial scales for a variety of industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LabGenius Therapeutics ("LabGenius") is a drug discovery company pioneering the discovery of next-generation therapeutic antibodies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bactobio is a London-based biotechnology company that uses breakthroughs in genomics, machine learning and bioengineering to culture the 99% of microbes that have previously been…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nucleome was founded in 2019.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Genesis Biosciences - a global biosciences company, based in both Atlanta, US, and Cardiff, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arctoris is a tech-enabled Partnership Research Organization (PRO) headquartered in Oxford.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Qkine manufactures high-quality and novel growth factors, supporting scientists in developing and scaling stem cell, organoid, cellular agriculture and regenerative medicine…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Charnwood Discovery is part of Concept Life Sciences following an acquisition in November 2024.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accelerate your discovery with exceptional service and innovative, cutting-edge life science products Founded over 35 years ago, AMSBIO is a premier life sciences supplier…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based outside Edinburgh, Roslin Technologies Limited is an ambitious food and agriculture technology company which creates disruptive biotechnologies to improve how proteins are…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Funded and run by scientists, Ludger Limited is a life science company specialized in glycobiology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Isomerase helps partners innovate and harness the microbial power of a wide range of bacteria and fungi to discover and produce native or novel natural products, peptides, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Native Antigen Company products are now aligned under Lucigen Reagent Components, an LGC Diagnostics & Genomics brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Antiverse is a Welsh techbio company specialising in antibody design for challenging drug targets, such as GPCRs and ion channels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hyris is an innovation-based, fast-growing biotech Company, which aims to democratize genetic analysis by offering its partners and clients a disruptive System which enables…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the home of Sphere Bio and Fluidity One‑M, we deliver an end‑to‑end portfolio for complex biology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Virax Biolabs is an innovative biotechnology company focused on the detection of immune responses to and diagnosis of viral diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Randox Laboratories has a longstanding reputation as a world leading diagnostic manufacturer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stratech Scientific was established in 1983 as a distributor of high quality, competitively priced, reliable products for research laboratories throughout the UK and Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: biotechnology research companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names biotechnology research companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of biotechnology research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name biotechnology research companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Biotechnology research companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 283 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among biotechnology research companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “biotechnology research companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names biotechnology research companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among biotechnology research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,702 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Biotechnology research companies by metro
- Biotechnology research companies in London61
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names biotechnology research companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many biotechnology research companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 283 biotechnology research companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
ABCAM, headquartered in Cambridge, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most biotechnology research companies?
London leads with 61 headquartered companies, followed by Cambridge (23) and Edinburgh (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,702 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 283 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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