Today, Cambridge is Europe's largest biotechnology cluster, consisting of more than 30 science and technology parks within 10 miles of the city. These play a vital role across the cycle of discovery within life sciences, providing access to a vibrant and sustainable talent pipeline and stimulating collaboration, innovation, enterprise and growth. Attracting over £700M in private investment during 2020, the confidence shown by venture capitalists and public markets to invest in the innovation Cambridge and its environs delivers.
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Today, Cambridge is Europe's largest biotechnology cluster, consisting of more than 30 science and technology parks within 10 miles of the city. These play a vital role across the cycle of discovery within life sciences, providing access to a vibrant and sustainable talent pipeline and stimulating collaboration, innovation, enterprise and growth. Attracting over £700M in private investment during 2020, the confidence shown by venture capitalists and public markets to invest in the innovation Cambridge and its environs delivers.
Cambridge is a citadel of science and the birthplace of highly successful companies. A unique environment that is hard to beat
Professor Tony Kouzarides
Director, Milner Therapeutics Institute
Cambridge is a citadel of science and the birthplace of highly successful companies. A unique environment that is hard to beat
Professor Tony Kouzarides
Director, Milner Therapeutics Institute
Underpinning the earliest stages of company growth, the Babraham Research Campus is a 430-acre site centred on the renowned Babraham Institute, providing state-of-the-art services for start-up companies in life sciences side by side with later stage, multi-national businesses, thus creating the informal mentoring and shared-learning dynamic. The Wellcome Genome Campus is home to the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, and provides flexible space for innovative genomics and biodata companies and scientific facilities which complement the genomic and bioinformatics foci of the site.
Melbourn Science Park
Building on Melbourn Science Park's proud history as a hub for scientific innovation
One of the UK’s leading property providers to the science and technology sector, Bruntwood SciTech, Bruntwood's joint venture with Legal & General, is planning to redevelop Melbourn Science Park into a new campus for 75 businesses with a community village green.
Our vision is to create a highly sustainable and connected new campus that is globally recognised for growing converging science and technology businesses that improve human lives.
Jamie Clyde, Director
babraham.com
Babraham Research Campus is one of the best places in Europe to start-up and scale-up a life science business
We have created an environment where companies can focus on developing their science and building their business in a supportive and highly networked community, helping to create new medicines, jobs and growth.
Our 2019 impact report confirms the contribution of the Campus to UK science; the value of the largest 14 companies located here is £4.1bn, which represents a 7.2 times return for investors
Derek Jones, CEO
wellcomegenomecampus.org
Wellcome Genome Campus – Life-changing science
The Wellcome Genome Campus is home to some of the foremost organisations in genomics and computational biology, delivering science with the reach, scale and imagination to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges.
Cambridge is a unique home for science to flourish from initial idea through to world-changing innovations, technology, tools and ideas.
Martin Dougherty, Chief Operating Officer
cambridgesciencepark.co.uk
Enabling companies to build a better world through collaboration
Owned by Trinity College Cambridge, the Park is home to over 7345 innovators working in 130 companies from exciting start-ups to some of the world's leading technology businesses.
We offer companies the optimal environment to develop innovative, life-enhancing products and services - an environment where people genuinely love to work and collaborate.
Jeanette Walker, Director
Now a UK Government Life Sciences Opportunity Zone, Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC) is an important part of the journey for new healthcare treatments. Co-locating the University of Cambridge, world-leading research institutions and three NHS Trusts with the headquarters of international life sciences businesses including AstraZeneca and Abcam, it forms the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe.
Healthcare is a major research theme for the University of Cambridge West Cambridge site, including the Cavendish Laboratory and the Maxwell Centre which hosts start-ups and collaborative research projects with industry. A new UKRI University Enterprise Zone links the campus to CBC, promoting access for start-ups to expertise at subject interfaces and driving applications in therapeutics, medtech and digital health.
For an innovation ecosystem to thrive you need a virtuous circle between start-ups, scale-ups, and established businesses - Cambridge is one of the few places in the world that has achieved this
Mike Anstey, Cambridge Innovation Capital
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Cambridge Immunity Experimental Medicine Unit
The proposed Immunity Experimental Medicine Unit (iEMU) will enable human experimental medicine studies into COVID-19, accelerating the delivery of vaccines, antivirals and other therapies to the clinic. The proposal is supported by GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca and will play a key part of supporting the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
PerkinElmer acquires Horizon Discovery
Sanofi completes Kymab acquisition
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Duncan McCunn
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