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The BioEscalator

The BioEscalator, Oxford University's Biotech incubator, provides lab space and entrepreneurial support for high growth startups.

Oxford’s Old Road Campus is home to many of the University’s world-class institutes and departments, with 8500 staff and students tackling the full range of medical health challenges across the world. The BioEscalator builds on this success by nurturing early-stage biotech companies through to sustainability, by facilitating collaboration with NHS and academics, to build a community of entrepreneurial medical scientists and innovators.

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Microscope in a BioEscalator Lab

Lab Space

Our focus is on getting more discoveries out of the lab and into patient care by providing fully equipped shared facilities allowing your company to start innovating from the moment you move in.

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Latest Updates

News

A photo of the BioEscalator's new laboratory space. Rows of bench space with a glass panel wall reflecting the outside behind them.

BioEscalator Opens New Laboratory

In December 2021, the BioEscalator opened a brand-new 137m2 laboratory, providing much-needed additional incubator space for Oxford-based start-ups.

OUBT logo, BioEscalator logo, Arctoris logo & Oxford Nanopore Technologies

BioEscalator Sponsors Oxford Catalyse Programme 2022

The BioEscalator is sponsoring a prize for the Biohackaton 2022, where teams created during the Oxford Catalyse 2022 programme will pitch their final business plans to a panel of judges.

A team hand stack (people's hands placed on top of each other) to the left with the Bioarchitech and SIGA Human Bioarmor logos to the right.

SIGA Announces Preclinical Oncology Research Collaboration with Bioarchitech

The research collaboration will investigate TPOXX® (tecovirimat) in combination with Bioarchitech’s proprietary vaccinia-based immunotherapy platform in preclinical studies.

Upcoming Events

Photo of the BioEscalator. Photo of a BioEscalator lab. Photo of a woman doing lab work in a fume hood. BioEscalator University of Oxford logo.

BioEscalator Open Afternoon

Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 12pm to 3pm

Learn how the BioEscalator assists early-stage biotech SMEs in getting their ideas out of the lab and into patient care.

OBN BioThirstday

Thursday, 08 September 2022, 6pm to 8pm

BioThirstdays are a great way to establish connections and raise your profile with like-minded colleagues from across the life sciences industry.

 

BioEscalator Bulletin No. 4

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BioEscalator Team

Our Location

BioEscalator Innovation Building,
University of Oxford,
Old Road Campus,
Roosevelt Drive,
Oxford,
OX3 7FZ


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