At Best Startup Scotland we track over 100,000 Scottish 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 39 Biotechnology companies in Glasgow. 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 (Glasgow)
ENOUGH
ENOUGH is a foodtech startup producing protein through fermenting fungi using renewable feedstocks.
Founder(s): Craig Johnston
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: 3D Technology, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Information Services, Information Technology
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Dxcover
The Future of Cancer Diagnostics
Founder(s): David S Palmer, Holly Butler, Matthew Baker
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Machine Learning, Medical, Medical Device
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Biomage
Biomage specializes in single-cell analysis transforming the life sciences.
Founder(s): Adam Kurkiewicz, Iva Babukova, Marcell Pek
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Data Visualization, Life Science
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Solasta Bio
Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology
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Bio-Images Drug Delivery
Class leading experts in formulation work and scintigraphic clinical trials.
Founder(s): Howard Stevens
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Pharmaceutical
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Aurum Biosciences
Aurum Biosciences has develops novel pharmaceuticals for use in a number of different clinical indications of high unmet medical need.
Founder(s): Graeme Deuchar
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Saw DX
SAW Dx is an emerging point of care diagnostic (POC) device design and manufacturing venture focused on exploiting.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical Device
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Causeway Therapeutics
A bio pharmaceutical spin out emerging.
Founder(s): Derek Gilchrist, Neal L Millar
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Taragenyx
Regenerating orthopedic and dental implant design to help patients heal faster with far less pain.
Founder(s): Iain McDougall, Raman Bedi
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Dental, Health Care, Medical
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Clyde Biosciences
Improving success in drug discovery
Founder(s): Margaret Anne Craig
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Clear Surgical
Clear Surgical is an innovative product that is set to transform surgical theatres.
Founder(s): Jim McGuire
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
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Mode Diagnostics
Mode Diagnostics is exploiting the electrochemical properties of biomarkers to produce novel assays for home diagnostic purposes.
Founder(s): Paul Heaney
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Medical
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Relitect
Relitect is developing a novel assay platform for the label free electrochemical detection of binding events.
Founder(s): Christoph Wälti, Giles Davies
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics
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Alfacyte
Alfacyte is developing many therapeutic application to use in Autoimmune disease, Cancer immunotherapy and Food allergy.
Founder(s): William Stimson
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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DeepMatter Group
DeepMatter Group provides medical research and development services.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Analytics, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Product Research, Software
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ClinTec International
ClinTec International is engaged in clinical research and provides support to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
Founder(s): Rabinder Buttar
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Health Care, Medical Device
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Fixed-Phage Ltd
Fixed-Phage Ltd has developing new products for various industries from our platform technology.
Founder(s): Michael Mattey
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Consumer, Health Care
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SB Drug Discovery
SB Drug Discovery is a contract research services company offering expertise in compound screening.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care
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Tissue Solutions
Tissue Solutions is providing rapid access to high quality biospecimens with guaranteed ethical compliance.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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BioClavis
BioClavis specializes in molecular profiling using TempO-Seq for diagnostic and drug discovery.
Founder(s): Joel McComb
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Nanokick Technologies
Nanokick Technologies develops a spin-out, focussing on nanovibrational bioreactor technology for bone regeneration from stem cells.
Founder(s): Gabriel Pemberton, Matt Dalby, Peter Childs, Richard Boyd, Stuart Reid
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Nanotechnology
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Sistemic
Sistemic is a development-stage biomedical company focused on the analysis of the information content of microRNA and other non-coding RNAs.
Founder(s): Vincent O’Brien
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Amici Procurement Solutions
Amici provides a purchasing and supply chain management service.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Supply Chain Management
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Q-One Biotech Group
Q-One Biotech Group provides specialist safety testing and process validation services, cell banks, vaccines and gene therapy products.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology
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BluTest Laboratories
BluTest Laboratories is a newly independent rapidly growing microbiology .
Founder(s): Chris Woodall
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care
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Alpha Biotech Ltd.
Alpha Biotech Ltd. distributes market leading histocompatibility testing ‘Olerup SSP’ products.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology
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Spero Oncology
Spero Oncology is a pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device firm.
Founder(s): Theresa Bruce
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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XstalBio
XstalBio works collaboratively with international clients to help drive biopharmaceuticals and vaccines to market by enabling delivery.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology
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Glycologic
Glycologic utilises the unique properties of carbohydrates and its skill base to develop customised technology solutions.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology
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ReactivLab
ReactivLab offers animal diagnostics solutions.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Veterinary
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ITI Scotland
ITI Scotland invests in trailblazing research and development programmes to generate commercially-focused business opportunities.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Energy, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
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Solus Scientific Solutions
Solus Scientific Solutions is a company engaged in developing detection methods for food borne pathogens.
Founder(s): Stewart Wallace
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Test and Measurement
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Biopta
Biopta is the company focussed on the use of fresh functional human tissues in drug development.
Founder(s): David Bunton
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre
Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC) enables the development of new products and services for a global market.
Founder(s): Diane Harbison
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Hospital, Medical
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Portage Glasgow
Portage Glasgow focus on the commercialisation of new therapies aimed at disrupting protein-protein interactions (PPI) in disease pathways.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Klinikos
Klinikos is Expertise in Resourcing for Field Based Activities of a Clinical Trial in Europe.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Glasgow Neuro LTD
Soft / hardware development for biomedical applications
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Software
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Pharmacells
Pharmacells is a new biotechnology company, ability to identify, isolate, process and store a recently discovered pluripotent cell line.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology
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Dynamic Bioarray
Dynamic Bioarray focusing on products, IP, services and consultancy in emerging biological micro- and nano-array technology markets.
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Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biotechnology, Consulting
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