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BIOTECH

Renovo Ltd

 

Renovo – Wound healing drug development

Renovo is a world leading company developing novel pharmaceuticals to prevent scarring and to accelerate acute wound healing at all body sites. Renovo has 4 products in phase II clinical development.

DxS Ltd

 

DxS – Pharmacogenetic Services

DxS is a personalised medicine company focused on providing genetic analysis services, technologies and products to enable the delivery of safe and effective medicines. These services provide support for drug development, diagnostic product development and pharmacodiagnostics.

Epistem Ltd

 

Epistem – CRO services using epithelial cells

EpiStem is a contract research organisation with unrivalled knowledge of epithelial tissue assays; providing pre-scientific services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology.

F2G Ltd

 

F2G – Therapies for fungal diseases

World leaders in anti-fungal drug discovery, F2G specialise in new treatments for serious fungal infections in man. Using its patented MutantBankT technology, F2G is able to identify novel molecular targets – the first step to finding new therapeutics for pathogenic fungi.

Gentronix

 

Gentronix – Drug development screening products

Gentronix is an innovative biotechnology company helping to accelerate the pace of drug discovery. Gentronix is launching a human cell genotoxicity assay, the first new and genuinely useful cancer hazard assessment assay since the regulatory battery of genetic toxicity tests was established.

Nanoco Technologies Ltd

 

Nanoco Technologies – Nanocrystals for e.g. bio-imaging

Nanoco is a leading developer and manufacturer of a platform technology, Quantum Dots, with applications in electronics, solar energy, bio-imaging and counterfeit protection. has become the first company in the world to ship production-level quantities of Quantum Dots and can easily configure them to meet custom performance specifications.

Oncoprobe Ltd

 

Oncoprobe – Cancer Diagnostics

Oncoprobe Ltd is developing a theranostic service to improve management of patients receiving chemotherapy. Its novel technology is designed to help optimise chemotherapeutic choice to best meet needs of individual patients by measuring the responsiveness of individual patient cancer cells (from excised tumours or biopsy samples) to various drugs.

Stem Cell Clean Room

 

Stem Cell Clean Room – Stem cell and tissue constructs

The Northwest Embryonic Stem Cell Centre (NWESCC) and UK Centre for Tissue Regeneration (UKCTR) are parallel projects regarding production of linical grade embyronic stem cells and regenerative tissue constructs for human transplantation.

 

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HI-TECH

I-Pix

 

iPix – LED design

Is a new LED design and manufacturing company – i-Pix brings new energy, imagination and horizons to the world of entertainment industry LED technology, and has just launched the first in its new range of high powered products – the Satellite.

Sparta Technologies Ltd

 

 

 

 

Sparta Technologies – ICT solutions

Sparta Technologies team is composed of programmers, business application specialist and integrators based at the University of Manchester using the latest cutting edge skills and processes to help you. We provide solutions to both the Public and Private Sector, and pride ourselves on delivering cost effective IT solutions to meet business needs and requirements with a unique competitive edge.

TechniTex

 

 

 

 

TechniTex – Designs and applications for the textile industry

TechniTex is industrially driven and focuses on research, design and development of new technologies and applications for the textile industry.
We work with some 450 companies to bring innovation through to the market place. Our board comprises the combined strength of several university research teams together with key industrialists who epitomize the best in scientific research, training and technology.

Mobysoft

 

 

 

 

Mobysoft – Mobile solutions

Mobysoft provide simple to use, effective mobile solutions for our clients. Customers include the BBC, Savills, BrightHouse and Acumus insurance in the private sectors as well as a raft of housing organisations in the public sector for our flagship product, MobileLogic.

Smrartlife Technology

 

 

 

 

Smartlife Technology – Garments with integral sensor systems

SmartLife® Technology Limited designs and develops garments with integral sensor systems for personal health and wellbeing monitoring.Our core skills are in the design of garments and the optimisation of monitoring performance through use of novel electrode design and signal extraction.

NWT

 

NWT – Internet content filters

Inteliguard from NWT is one of the first of a new generation of profiles based intelligent internet content filters for the educational, business and ISP sectors.

Bit Factory Software Ltd

 

Bit Factory Software – Software development solutions

Bit Factory provides software development solutions for security systems exclusively for the Microsoft.Net platform

Frontier

 

 

 

 

Frontier – Public relations

With a broad range of industry experience and expert knowledge of communications, Frontier Public Relations will find a communications key to unlock the challenges facing your organisation.

Winning Pitch

 

 

 

 

Winning Pitch – Strategies for communicating your ideas

Led by business development expert John Leach, the company provide a range of services aimed at business development improvement and maximising a companies sales performance. These range from interactive training, master classes, 1;1 advice and a developing range of online training solutions.

Winning Business Academy

 

 

 

 

Winning Business Academy – Business support

This is a joint venture between Winning Pitch Ltd and the University of Manchester Incubator Company (UMIC). Our aim is to provide practical high quality business support to companies that have a desire to grow. We are committed to assisting ambitious businesses realise their full potential by delivering innovative approaches that result in breakthrough sales performance. The methodologies are proven to produce revenue growth.

Greenlight Computers

 

 

 

 

Greenlight Computers – IT technicians

Greenlight is based upon over 40 years of experience managing some of the largest IT technician workforces in the UK and Europe. Our experience is derived from computer manufacturing, computer/telephony repair, IT mobile services and global IT service solutions.

Phylinks

 

 

 

 

Phylinks – IP cores

Phylinks provides a portfolio of IP Cores for the design of physical layer (PHY) high speed serial interfaces. Phylinks’ cores can be implemented in a variety of chip designs for use in advanced PCs, PC peripherals, Servers, and 3G communications devices.

Inventya

 

 

 

 

Inventya – Innovative IT solutions to support companies and inventors

Inventya is a leading provider of innovative solutions to support companies and inventors in the complicated process of developing new ideas from concepts to successful products in the marketplace. They are developing a range of evaluation software for early stage business ideas, including an interactive guide to entrepreneurship.

Binary Films

 

 

 

 

Binary Films – Film producer

Binary are an award winning film production company based in the UK. In the past, we have won awards and acclaim for our short film dramas ‘Me, You & The Dead’ and ‘Out of Milk’, as well as a strong reputation for developing award winning screenplays with the North West Vision Lottery Screenplay development scheme.

Grobox Gardens

 

Grobox Gardens – Designer growboxes

Jayne Lawton is a trained horticulturist with the Royal Horticultural Society and a qualified horticultural lecturer. Jayne identified a gap in the marketplace for a designer growing box product with a collection of hand picked scented plants. Jayne has been awarded British Female Innovator of the year 2006, Packard Bell Independent Working Mum of the year 2006, Orange Business Innovation of the Year 2006 Highly Commended.

CXR

 

 

 

CXR – World-class manufacturing business

CXR is creating a range of products that are expected to provide a step-change in productivity in their respective markets. Based on unique and powerful new concepts in X-ray imaging system design, CXR is building a world-class manufacturing business for high added value products and services.

Duo Design

 

 

Duo Design – New media development

Duo is a Manchester web design and new media development company.
We utilise our easy edit websites (content management system), flash presentations and 3d animation to create effective online business solutions.

Godel Technologies

 

Godel Technologies – Software solutions through creative thinking

Gödel is a leading supplier of high quality software development services, specialising in enterprise application development, system integration and business automation tools.

Kier

 

Kier – Construction and development

Kier is a leading construction, development and service group specialising in building and civil engineering, support services, private housebuilding, property development and the Private Finance Initiative.

Affinity

 

Affinity – Network solutions

ANS-UK was born out of the gap within the small to medium sized business for quality reliable IT support services at the costs that suit their budgets. In the era of ‘doing more for less’ and the five nines (99.999%) availability, our services have been structured to cope with the demand from SMB’s to utilise their IT to its full potential.

Plasma Clean

 

 

 

Plasma Clean – Air cleansing systems

Develops and manufactures air cleansing systems based on its patented enhanced electric field technology Plasma Screen. Plasma Clean is focussed on quality, performance and affordability and partners word-wide in the development of next generation air cleansing products.

Unhung Zero

 

Unhung Zero – Online fine art

UZ is an online fine art photography gallery specialising in the sale of contemporary limited edition prints. It also has specialised repository service of stock footage for the advertising, marketing and media industries to access. Many of these images are provided by new undiscovered amateur or professional photographers.

Citrus Lounge

 

 

 

Citrus Lounge – Internet solutions

Citrus Lounge provide a wide range of Internet solutions for businesses of all sizes. Click below for more information on: Website Design and Management, E commerce, mailing lists, online booking, etc.

One File

 

 

 

One File – Online assessment solutions

OneFile ePortfolio is an easy-to-use online assessment solution that can be used for vocational qualifications like NVQ and Key Skills. Features include action planning, assessing against the criteria, providing feedback, verifying, auditing, management reporting and much more. Our system is endorsed by City & Guilds and Edexcel as well as being supported by many more awarding bodies.

Data Clinic

 

 

 

Data Clinic – Data recovery

Data Clinic Ltd provide a professional, cost effective and prompt data recovery service from crashed hard disks and other computer based media. They perform data recovery from servers, desktops, laptop / notebook computers, DVDs and CDs and are specialists in data recovery from all versions of Windows, Macintosh (Mac OS) and Linux operating systems.

Riverhorse Productions

 

 

 

Riverhorse Productions – Independent programmes and films

Riverhorse Productions make quality independent programmes and films. Our primary aim is to produce creative and original documentary programmes for international distribution and broadcast.

Salisi

 

 

 

Salisi – Premier supplier of human capital

By combining innovative techniques with traditional best-practice, Salisi helps its clients identify, recruit, develop and retain the best people in the industry.

Our team of experienced consultants offer a diverse portfolio of services, including Talent Scouting, Recruitment, HR Audits, Training and Development, Outsourced HR Services, Career Counselling and Outplacement.

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