Abingdon Health Company Profile
Abingdon Health is a specialist medical diagnostics company based in London. The Company works with the world’s best scientists to acquire, develop and distribute state-of-the art diagnostic tools and services. Their mission is to create a global, diversified healthcare business through both selective acquisition and the development of patent protected, clinically relevant diagnostic products.
In November 2010, Abingdon launched a joint venture with the University of Birmingham, Bioscience Ventures Limited (“Bioscience Ventures”), to commercialise intellectual property developed at the University. Bioscience Ventures is developing new diagnostic tools for conditions where there is currently unmet need in markets such as oncology, genetic diseases and platform technologies with applications in many areas including infectious diseases, drug testing and veterinary. It currently has the following companies within its portfolio:
- Serascience Ltd - developing fast, accurate point of care tests to aid the diagnosis of myeloma and related conditions;
- Linear Diagnostics Ltd - focused on the development of a platform technology based on linear dichroism which is currently being applied to the multiplexed detection of infectious disease agents in sepsis;
- Alta Bioscience Ltd – manufactures and sells speciality chemicals such as peptides and oligonucleotides and performs amino-acid analysis and protein sequencing for the pharmaceutical industry, food industry and academia;
- Bioscience Ventures is also working on a new urine test for the diagnosis of adrenal cancer.
Location
Prama House
Banbury Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX2 7HT
GB
Contact
Phone: +44 (0) 1865 339 490
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 339 301
News Articles
Abingdon Health, Forsite Diagnostics Ltd. deal
29 November 2012: Abingdon, UK - During cellular reprogramming the feeder layer can greatly affect the health of the cell culture and the success of the reprogramming. While a range of inactivated ...
OBN's Call for Biomedical Catalyst Extension Backed by Industry Heavyweights (News)
03 May 2013: Abingdon, UK - OBN, the trade association supporting and bringing together the UK's emerging life sciences companies, their corporate partners and investors, has welcomed the ...
Serascience introduces point-of-care diagnostic device for multiple myeloma
Serascience, a joint venture between Abingdon Health and the University of Birmingham, has introduced a proprietary point-of-care diagnostic device for multiple myeloma.
08 February 2013: Abingdon, UK - At least 80% of cancers are carcinomas, or tumours of the epithelia. Traditionally, cell transformation to a cancerous stage has been evaluated by anchorage dependent...
AMSBIO has announced its new Trilencer-27 siRNA kit (News)
16 August 2012: Abingdon, UK - Gene silencing through the use of RNAi has become a primary tool for characterizing gene involvement in disease states and interactive pathways. Offering genome-wide ...
Ludger Launches LudgerTag™ 2AB and 2AA Glycan Labelling Kits with Non Toxic Reductant (News)
05 December 2012: Abingdon, UK - Fluorescent labelling methods for glycoprofiling of therapeutic glycoproteins are well established and aid subsequent separation and quantitation using a range ...
19 February 2013 - Free 1 Day Seminar from Patheon (News)
08 January 2013: Abingdon, UK - In this half-day seminar, three scientific leaders will share their experiences and answer questions on strategies for effectively progressing small molecules through ....
Drugs and Medications
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PubMed Articles
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Clinical Trials
Trial Embedded in an Electronic Personal Medical Health Records
This is a research study to determine if a personal health record, called myHERO, will help improve health. A personal health record is a secure internet (also called online) tool that con...
This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a medical illness self-management program in improving the health and health behavior of people who are receiving care at a community mental h...
Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of a multi-component email health promotion program on employee adoption of health promoting behaviors and secondarily on health st...
Randomised Trial of Health Coaching in Secondary Prevention of Diabetes and Heart Disease
A randomised trial with individual patients as units of observation will be carried out. Health coaching is used to modify health behaviour and thus improve disease control and health stat...
Oral Health in Adults: Association With Attitude, Literacy and Psychological Factors
The purpose of this study to investigate attitude, oral health literacy and psychological factors in order to evaluate if these factors are important for oral health in adults. The hypoth...
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