OBN Awards 2017


Winners of the prestigious OBN Awards 2017 were announced on September 5th in front of a sold- out audience of over 250 life science industry leaders at the Town Hall in Oxford. The Awards, which are in their 9th year, celebrate the best of UK life sciences - from outstanding scientific innovation within biotech, medtech, digital, synthetic biology, to the companies that support the industry and the fundraisers that make it happen.


Congratulating the winners John Harris, CEO of OBN (UK) said: “We received an outstanding number of entries this year; up a staggering 120% on last year, so competition was really tough. All of our winners and nominees this year are truly innovative and set a great example to the rest of the industry. We would like to thank all of our sponsors and supporters for helping make the awards a success, which acts as a reflection of how buoyant and supportive the industry is today.”


OBN Awards 2017 Winners:


Award one: Best Start-up Biotech, kindly sponsored by EY Winner - Microbiotica


For their work in transforming personalised medicine with microbiome science


Award two: Best Emerging Biotech, kindly sponsored by Covance


Winner - Exscientia


For applying AI and big data processing to accelerate drug discovery and development


Award 8: Perspectum Diagnostics Best Emerging Medtech


Award three: Best Established Biotech, kindly sponsored by Penningtons Manches


Winner - PsiOxus Therapeutics


Award ten: Best Implementation of Digital Healthcare, kindly sponsored by James Cowper Kreston


Winner - Adherium


BioHub at Alderly Park Best UK Life Sciences Incubator and Winners of the Outstanding Achievement Award


For their outstanding work as the epicentre for life science technology in the North West


Award seven: Best Start-up Medtech, kindly sponsored by Premier Research


Winner - Oxford Endovascular PsiOxus Therapeutics Best Established Biotech


For realising the potential of immuno-oncolytic viruses for treatment of solid tumours


Award four: Best Contract Research Organisation; kindly sponsored by Ipsen BioinnovatioN


Winner - Sygnature Discovery


For their work in supporting the acceleration of the discovery of new medicines from the laboratory into development to treat patients with a range of debilitating and fatal diseases


Award five: Highest Impact Investor, kindly sponsored by MEPC Milton Park


Winner - Innovate UK


For creating novel ‘origami-like’ stents with improved performance and lower patient risk for treatment of intracranial aneurysms


Award eight: Best Emerging Medtech, kindly sponsored by Team Consulting


Winner - Perspectum Diagnostics


For commercialising LiverMultiScan, a non-invasive medical imaging software tool which enhances the effectiveness of the diagnostic pathway for patients with chronic liver disease


Award nine: Best Synthetic Biology Company, kindly sponsored and judged exclusively by SynbiCITE


Innovate UK Highest Impact Investor


Winner - Synpromics For enabling safer, more effective cell and gene medicines


Award 9: Synpromics Best Synthetic Biology Company 44161pr@reply-direct.com Oxford Endovascular Best Start-up Medtech


For providing smart personal medication monitoring systems to help patients manage their chronic respiratory conditions


Award eleven: Best Public-Private Collaboration, kindly sponsored by Oxford AHSN


Winner - The University of Oxford, Oxford University Innovation, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Drayson Technologies


For signing a strategic research agreement to evaluate, develop and commercialise digital health applications including GDm-Health for the management of gestational diabetes.


Award twelve: Outstanding Achievement Award, kindly sponsored by Lloyds Bank & N+1 Singer


Winner - BioHub at Alderley Park


For embodying the criteria of this award by overcoming challenges, thinking more innovatively and simply working hard to succeed.


Award thirteen: Special Recognition Award Winner - Julian Golec


For his long service to the life sciences industry


through proprietary genomics, bioinformatics and intelligent data driven design


Winners of the OBN Awards 2017


Andrew Hopkins, Exscientia Best Emerging Biotech


For the pump priming, support and leverage they have provided to companies in the life sciences industry over the past year


Award six: Best UK Life Sciences Incubator, kindly sponsored by Precision Oncology


Winner - BioHub at Alderley Park


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