Best Startup Scotland
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 17 Biopharma companies in Scotland. 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 Biopharma Companies & Startups (Scotland)
Amphista Therapeutics
Amphista Therapeutics operates as a biopharmaceutical company.
Founder(s): Alessio Ciulli
Location: Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, 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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Sirakoss
SIRAKOSS is a Scotland-based medical device company that develops synthetic bone graft substitutes.
Founder(s): Iain Gibson, Jordan Conway
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Health Care, Life Science, Medical, Medical Device, Wellness
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Biogelx
Biogelx is a biomaterials company which designs and supplies peptide hydrogels for cell culture.
Founder(s): David Lightbody, Rein Ulijn
Location: Newhouse, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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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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Envirobe
Envirobe is a cleantech company that develops microbial solutions to shut the loop on plastics production and clean up pollution.
Founder(s): Manyung Emma Hon, Samuel James Magaziner
Location: Newyork, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science, Manufacturing
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Cytomos Ltd.
We help biopharma reduce their time to market through integrated, predictive analytics for intelligent bioprocessing
Founder(s): Keith Muir
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Machine Learning, Medical
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ProStrakan
ProStrakan is a pharmaceutical company.
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Location: Galashiels, Scottish Borders, The, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology
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OracleBio
A privately-owned Digital Pathology Contract Research Organisation (CRO) providing Digital Image Analysis Services.
Founder(s): John Waller, Lorcan Sherry
Location: Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Analytics, Biopharma, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Xanthella
Xanthella designs and manufactures photobioreactors for the culture of photosynthetic cells like microalgae or cyanobacteria.
Founder(s): Douglas McKenzie
Location: Oban, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science, Manufacturing
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Vertebrate Antibodies
Vertebrate focus on the development of antibodies to targets within a wide range of organisms for research and clinical applications.
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Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science
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Roylance Pharma
Roylance Pharma is a provider of biobanking and stability storage facility to store pharmaceutical and biological samples.
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Location: Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Glycologic
Glycologic utilises the unique properties of carbohydrates and its skill base to develop customised technology solutions.
Founder(s):
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology
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Vitrology
Vitrology is a biopharmaceutical contract testing organization in the biosafety testing sector of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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CeNeS Pharmaceuticals
CeNeS Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes.
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Location: Irvine, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology
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Strathkelvin Instruments
Strathkelvin Instruments is a supplier in Precision Dissolved Oxygen Measurement and Respirometry.
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Location: Newhouse, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Waste Management, Water Purification
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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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