Measurement and Analysis Systems Ltd
Business Nature: Measurement and Analysis Systems Ltd provides a unique material testing, analysis and design service for technical textiles in the construction, aerospace, automotive, marine energy, packaging and consumer product sectors.
Founder: Professor Peter Gosling / Dr Ben Bridgens
Powerhouse Biologics Ltd
Business Nature: The company will work as a catalyst in the rapidly expanding and increasingly sophisticated personal healthcare market to provide personalised nutrition and cosmetics.
It will provide:
– a personalized service to identify an individual’s genetic variation in terms of their ability to use or metabolize dietary or cosmetic anti-oxidants.
– a service that will determine the potency of anti-oxidants (in the diet or cosmetic) by using their ability to prevent damage to the DNA inside the batteries or powerhouse of the cell (i.e. mitochondria) in relation to an individual’s genetic make-up.
Founder: Dr G Lietz / Professor M Birch-Machin
Newcastle Nanomaterials Ltd
Business Nature: There is a market for low cost electronic sensing devices that can offer a high degree of specificity in the sensed media whilst retaining high sensitivity to that media, whilst overcoming other environmental influences. Newcastle Nanomaterials will commercialise research from Chemical NanoScience Laboratory that has provided a means to produce, localise, and activate arrays of nano-wires for use in these devices.
Founder: Professor A Houlton
Gap Technologies Limited
Business Nature: Commercially exploitation of PolyHIPE Matyerials as reactor materials and in agriculture
Founder: Professor G Akay
Limbs Alive Ltd www.limbsalive.com
Business Nature: Developers of interactive action video games to assist in the rehabilitation of hemiplegia
Founder: Professor JA Eyre
Five-Quarter Energy Ltd. www.five-quarter.com
Business Nature: Underground Coal Gasification with Carbon Capture and Storage development company
Founder: Professor PL Younger
Cluff Geothermal Ltd www.cluffgeothermal.com
Business Nature: The company’s aim is to develop sustainable geothermal energy projects providing both direct heat and electricity whilst always striving to deliver the best possible results to our shareholders. We will be able to provide this energy consistently and sustainably with the lowest carbon emissions of any other renewable energy source
Founder: Professor PL Younger
Royenface Ltd. www.royenface.com
The company aims to exploit its newly patented electrochemical patterning technology within the microelectronics industry
Founder: Professor S Roy
Dymeryx Ltd
Business Nature: Dymeryx Ltd will develop and exploit speciality catalysts and associated chemical process designs. It is focused on developing novel processes to utilise waste carbon dioxide as an industrial feedstock.
Founder: Professor M North
i-GXL Limited
Business Nature: i-GXL Limited develops next generation, application specific System on Chip (SoC) semiconductor products for the healthcare sector, primarily focussed on portable and implantable medical diagnostic and monitoring devices. The company also develops semiconductor hardware IP for license into other non-competing sectors.
Founder: Dr JP Murphy
OJ-Bio Ltd www.oj-bio.com
Business Nature: Oj-Bio has developed a unique diagnostic device and biochip platform that allows the rapid measurement of disease markers, electronic storage, and wireless transmission of results. They are ideally suited to meet the needs for low-cost disposable measurement devices in healthcare, and in particular near patient testing. OJ-Bio is now seeking marketing/development partners to take these products to market
Founder: Professor JH Lakey
Data Complexity Limited www.datacomplexity.com
Business Nature: Software Engineering. Particularly, analysis of complex data sets.
Founder: Dr PE Andras
Demuris Limited www.demuris.co.uk
Business Nature: Compound screening and discovery service. Biotechnology Company focussing on the discovery of novel antibiotics
Founder: Professor J Errington
NewImaging Ltd
Business Nature: NewImaging Limited is set up to commercialise novel and proprietary approaches to the production of imaging agents for use on positron emission tomography (PET) imaging platforms. The “I+PET” family of products will initially be used by pre-clinical research and development scientists in both industry and academia, before then moving into the NHS environment where they will be invaluable to clinicians in the diagnosis and prognosis of human diseases such as cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and diabetes.
Founder: Dr MA Carroll
Newcell Technologies Limited
Business Nature: Exploitation of novel technology for the manufacture of moulded fuel cells.
Founder: Professor K Scott
NewGene Ltd www.newgene.org.uk
Business Nature: Genetic testing service. NewGene provides competitively priced and rapid DNA and RNA based assays for the detection of genetic variations of clinical significance. These assays are available to the NHS, private sector and international markets. A collaborative venture between Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Founder: Professor J Burn
Selective Antibodies Ltd www.selectiveantibodies.com
Business Nature: Selective Antibodies Ltd is a UK based diagnostics company with the prime focus of overcoming key technological problems central to the production of high performance point of need systems for small target molecules such as: medicaments, natural and unnatural toxins (such as fungal toxins and pesticides), drugs of abuse, CBRNE substances, and other substances of importance to forensic investigation, the environmental and food and water industries.
Founder: Professor CH Self
Bioenhancements Limited
Business Nature:
Founder: Professor CH Self
Biotransformations Limited www.biotransformations.com
Business Nature: The commercial focus of BioTransformations Ltd is aimed at greatly improving the specificity, safety and efficiency of anti-cancer treatment using monoclonal antibodies (Mabs).
Founder: Professor CH Self
Geneius Laboratories Ltd www.geneiuslabs.com
Business Nature: A company created to exploit state-of-the-art DNA fingerprinting techniques delivering a microbial identification service to the food and drink, environmental hygiene, pharmaceutical and health care industries.
Testing Laboratory: Microbial and GMO testing in whole foods, processed foods and feeds
Founder: Professor JD Barnes
Alcyomics Ltd www.alcyomics.com
Business Nature: Alcyomics Ltd is commercialising a unique human tissue Skin Explant Assay which can be used as a diagnostic tool for the testing of novel immunomodulatory drugs, potential allergic or hypersensitivity reactions including responses to stem cells.
Founder: Professor AM Dickinson
Profero Energy Inc www.proferoenergy.com
Business Nature: Profero Energy is a Calgary-based oil and gas technology company focused on recovering stranded heavy oil by microbially converting it to natural gas. Profero’s proprietary technology has the potential to significantly increase the recovery of heavy oil from reservoirs already fully exploited by conventional recovery methods
Founder: Professor IM Head
Searchbolt Ltd. www.searchbolt.net
Business Nature: Next generation core search technology from advances in complex network analysis
Founder: Professor MP Young
PowerTrial Ltd. www.powertrial.com
Business Nature: PowerTrial brings world class academic expertise in clinical trials with cutting edge web technology to provide you with the most robust and effective clinical research project management tools available today. The company provides competitive solutions for industry, government and academic clients and offers many unique applications not available from other suppliers.
Founder: Professor SG O'Brien
Gen-X Power Corp.
Business Nature: Fuel Cells
Gen-X Power Corp Inc. is a high-technology company that combines cutting edge R&D with state of the art engineering to produced advanced fuel cells. The company is an intellectual property and know-how driven business with novel fuel cell design at its core.
Founder: Professor PA Christensen
Clarizon Ltd www.clarizon.co.uk
Business Nature: Developing Electrochemical Ozone Generators
Founder: Professor PA Christensen
Mitomics Inc. www.mitomicsinc.com
Business Nature: Mitomics is pioneering the development of molecular tests based on the mitochondrial genome in order to improve clinical insight and therapeutic decisions that affect patients worldwide. Leveraging its unparalleled insights into the role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), the company is developing an extensive and proprietary portfolio of molecular tests addressing significant unmet needs in oncology, including those related to prostate, breast, lung and skin cancers, and other disease states. The unique structural and functional characteristics of mtDNA make it a highly attractive system for biomarker discovery, early disease detection, monitoring, risk assessment and therapeutic targeting.
Founder: Professor MA Birch-Machin
Hale Stevenson Ltd
Business Nature: The company offers a structural dynamics (shock and vibration) monitoring service using the sensor technology appropriate to each application. Although the expertise of the company is applicable to dynamic monitoring of any structure, the niche market of pipeline monitoring has been identified.
Founder: Dr JM Hale
Orla Protein Technologies Ltd www.orlaproteins.com
Business Nature: A bio-nanotechnology company integrating biological systems and physical devices through engineered protein interfaces, Orla technology, which is based upon self-assembling membrane protein scaffolds, allows large scale robust and reproducible manufacture for a variety of applications in drug discovery, diagnostics, cell culture, biomaterials and bio-sensing. Orla provides recombinant proteins immobilised by self-assembly with defined orientation whilst retaining their native state, it brings the power of molecular genetics and protein engineering to the interface between the physical and biological worlds
Founder: Professor JH Lakey
Viratom Ltd
Business Nature: Provides expertise in the culture of fastidious human viral pathogens and systems for the development and evaluation of antiviral drugs and antibodies.
Founder: Professor GL Toms
e-Therapeutics Plc www.etherapeuticsltd.com
Business Nature: e-Therapeutics plc is a systems biology drug discovery company. It has developed proprietary computational systems to swiftly and accurately analyse and predict how medicines interact with cells in the body. This optimises the probability of identifying drug candidates with desirable efficacy and low toxicity. The Company applies its novel, systematic approach to three areas of activity: discovery of new drugs; discovering novel uses for existing drugs; and, analysis of interactions between different rugs.
Founder: Professor MP Young
Electrokinetic Ltd. www.electrokinetic.co.uk
Business Nature: Electrokinetic was set up to exploit Electrokinetic Geosynthetics. The EKG concept combines two well-known concepts of electro-kinetics and geosynethics to create `geosynthetic electrodes` - fine stainless steel elements coated with a polymer. Applications include de-watering of contaminated materials such as sewage sludge and sports field applications as well as stabilising railway embankments, helping to clean contaminated land and the treatment of unstable mining waste.
Founder: Professor BG Clarke
Xcellsyz Limited
Business Nature: Human Healthcare & Veterinary
Founder: Professor SJ Yeaman
Bioscience Partnership Ltd
Business Nature: The Bioscience Partnership Ltd was formed in 1998 under the DTI Biotechnology Exploitation Platform (BEP) Challenge. The Bioscience Partnership comprises the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, the University of East Anglia, and the Babraham Institute.
Founder: Professor TF Page
Arrow Therapeutics Ltd www.arrowt.co.uk
Business Nature: Drug development
Leica Biosystems Newcastle Ltd (Novocastra Laboratories) www.leica-microsystems.com
Business Nature: The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of products for the complete histopathological process.
Founder: Professor CHW Horne