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Top 24 Cell and molecular biology companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 203 cell and molecular biology companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 8,316 professional contacts across them, including 3,019 with verified work emails. Cambridge is the largest hub.
This list covers cell and molecular biology 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 19, 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 24 largest cell and molecular biology 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,137 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LGC is a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics and analytical solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 437 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RoslinCT is a leading global contract development and manufacturing services organization (CDMO) focused on Advanced Cell Therapies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 433 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 313 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Adaptimmune is a fully integrated cell therapy company, designed and built from the ground up with four U.K- and U.S-based biotechnology hub locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “bit.bio is an award-winning human synthetic biology company - our mission: coding cells for novel cures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “4basebio is enabling next generation cell and gene therapies and vaccines with it's technologies and solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “biomodal is an omics-based life sciences technology and analytics company delivering products that bring the dynamism of our ever-changing biology into focus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ANGLE is a world-leading liquid biopsy company with innovative circulating tumour cell (CTC) diagnostic solutions for use in research, drug development and clinical oncology using…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Advent Bioservices began activity as a cell therapy contract development & manufacturing organisation (CDMO) in 2016.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In September 2015, GFA became Envigo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “APIS is leveraging systems biology, interrogating multi-OMICs biodata, and deploying innovative ‘Clickmer’ ligand binding technology, for the validation and translation of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alfa Aesar is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Novacyt is an international molecular diagnostics company providing a growing portfolio of integrated technologies and services, primarily focused on delivery of genomic medicine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VH Bio Limited is a leading supply and distribution company for the life sciences industry within the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, specialising in key areas of science…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our mission is to transform the discovery of first-in-class small molecule therapeutics by broadening the landscape of disease targets that can be drugged.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cambridge Bioscience is a specialist distributor of life science research products with a passion for bringing new and exciting technologies to researchers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Qnostics is a manufacturer of a variety of own-label and custom manufactured molecular controls.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Biofortuna, we form unique partnerships with the most innovative healthcare and life science companies and work together to enhance health and wellbeing all over the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oncologica is a world leading precision cancer medicine and Covid-19 testing and genomic sequencing laboratory based in Cambridge, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 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 19, 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: cell and molecular biology 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 cell and molecular biology companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of cell and molecular biology companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name cell and molecular biology 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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Cell and molecular biology companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 203 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 cell and molecular biology 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 “cell and molecular biology 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 cell and molecular biology 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 cell and molecular biology 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, 3,019 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 19, 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.
Cell and molecular biology companies by metro
- Cell and molecular biology companies in Cambridge30
- Cell and molecular biology companies in London26
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 cell and molecular biology 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 cell and molecular biology companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 203 cell and molecular biology 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 cell and molecular biology companies?
Cambridge leads with 30 headquartered companies, followed by London (26) and Oxford (6).
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 3,019 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 203 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 19, 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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