Geoff Davison, CEO of Bionow, said: “The Bionow Awards honour the outstanding contributions of the best companies and individuals who are driving innovation and delivering outstanding results. The 11 Bionow award 2109 categories were keenly fought, and all our shortlisted nominees have shown that they are among the best in the business.”We are very much looking forward to an evening of celebration with our nominees and guests.”

Bionow Start Up of the Year Sponsored by RSM UK

• Fibrofind
• Ostique
• PinPoint Data Science

Bionow Healthcare Project of the Year Sponsored by Mills & Reeve

• Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton and South District Nurse Bases
  Project: Striving for Perfect Care – Preventing skin breakdown in the community setting in the UK
• NGPod Global
  Project: NGPOD® Multi-Centre Clinical Trial in the NHS
• School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield
  Project: CFHealthHub habit lab: a digital learning health system
• The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  Project: Delivering Advanced Therapies to NHS Patients at Scale

Bionow Project of the Year Sponsored by Waters Corporation

• Biosignatures
  Project: Transforming lives by diagnosing disease early
• Iksuda Therapeutics
  Project: Developing novel ADC therapeutics based on proprietary technologies through to clinical proof-of-concept in oncology
• University of Bradford
  Project: EfferShield: A novel approach for low sodium effervescent products

Bionow AMR Award Sponsored by the AMR Centre

• F2G
  Project: Phase 2b development of the novel systemic antifungal Olorofim
• QuantuMDx Group
  Project: Q-POC™- tackling AMR by enabling diagnosis and ‘right first time’ prescribing in one consultation
• Connected Health Cities
  Project: BRIT: Building Rapid Interventions to reduce antimicrobial resisTance & over-prescribing of antibiotics

Bionow Product of the Year Sponsored by The Innovation Agency / Yorkshire & Humber AHSN / Health Innovation Manchester

• BBI (Bruin Biometrics) Europe
  Product: SEM Scanner
• Safe Steps
  Product: Safe Steps
• Glow New Media
  Product: SafeTeam Guardian

Bionow Technical Service Sponsored by Gateley

• Alcyomics
  Technical Service: Alcyomics in vitro human tissue based platforms for predicting of adverse immune reactions, drug discovery and efficacy
• CatSci
  Technical Service: Innovative Biocatalysis Contract Research
• Evotec (UK)
  Technical Service: Five-year partnership: Evaluate novel treatment regimens for MDR tuberculosis
• Medicines Discovery Catapult
  Technical Service: Medicines Discovery Catapult – Imaging Technologies to Accelerate Drug Discovery

Bionow Promising Technologist of the Year Sponsored by Seqirus

• Beenish Siddique, Founder and CEO, AEH Innovative Hydrogel
• David Chisholm, Research Chemist, LightOx
• Jake Dickinson, Scientist: Modelling and Simulation, Seda Pharmaceutical Development Services
• Jodie Patterson, Scientist, Cobra Biologics

Bionow Export Award Sponsored by DLA Piper

• CatSci
  Product/Service Exported: Process research and development services for the pharmaceutical industry
• Cresset
  Product / Service Exported: Software and service for molecule design
• Quay Pharma
  Product/Service Exported: Pharmaceutical development and GMP manufacture of drug products for clinical manufacture

Bionow Investment Deal of the Year Sponsored by QIAGEN

• Arcis Biotechnology
  Deal: Arcis series B funding
• Redx Pharma
  Deal: Sale of pan-RAF to Jazz Pharmaceuticals
• Yourgene Health
  Deal: Acquisition of Elucigene a Manchester-based molecular diagnostics manufacturer and developer by Yourgene Health plc

Bionow Outstanding Contribution Sponsored by Sci-Tech Daresbury

To be announced on the evening

Bionow Company of the Year Sponsored by AstraZeneca

• Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
• Sterling Pharma Solutions
• Yourgene Health