Bioinnovation has the potential to power your business ambition. And we are uniquely placed – with world-class expertise and facilities – to help deliver tangible, valuable commercial advantage.

We innovate at the exciting intersection of biology, engineering and advanced computation… to deliver breakthrough products and services with world-changing significance. Ours is a comprehensive approach founded on three core capabilities – Biostrategy, Biomeasurement and Biomanufacture. 

Biostrategy, Biomeasurement and Biomanufacture

Getting to market as the world transforms

Now more than ever, your route to market must navigate a complex, shifting global landscape. As risks arise, so do the potential rewards. Bioinnovation has the rare capacity to provide clarity and momentum in critical areas of opportunity, such as healthcare, agriculture and climate change. 

Ideas are the easier part; making them a reality is harder. The truth is, you require more than good technology to deliver positive change in a commercial context. To get to market, you need robust, realistic strategies. We can help you develop them because we understand the tools (biotechnology), the rules (governance models) and the interests (economic models) involved. Aligning all three is the secret to business success in Bioinnovation. 

Gaining insight with better information

Bioinnovation relies absolutely on Biomeasurement. It is the bedrock that enables control and optimization. But biological systems are extremely complex, span a huge scale range from km to nm and are incredibly difficult to measure. Success relies on seamless integration across numerous disciplines at which we are adept – including wetware, hardware and software. 

Our unique blend of abilities helps you bring new measurement and diagnosis products to market or integrate new measurement tools into your process and catalyze productivity gains. We understand and develop innovative sensors and cutting-edge data analysis. We’re able to bring together molecular biology, assay development, physics, electronics and AI to achieve the most complex measurements. And we package them for you in robust, easy-to-use, cost-effective solutions that comply with stringent regulatory requirements, including cGMP and medical device quality systems. 

Scaling up and delivering at viable cost

Researchers are continually discovering new ways to apply biology in their pursuit of breakthrough innovation. The real challenge is moving complex processes from the lab to high-volume manufacture at a cost that delivers business viability. Experience tells us that successful scale up demands optimization and invention across all disciplines – including biology, hardware, usability and control systems – plus rigorous regulatory compliance. 

We can help you optimize processes and develop the custom equipment you need to deliver at commercial cost and scale. We work seamlessly across biology, process optimization and equipment design to enable the successful manufacture and delivery of your product or advanced medical therapy. 

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Our experience 

Proven in biodesign 

Our proven biodesign capability has grown organically from our long history in healthcare and life sciences. Few if any of our peers can match our holistic approach which adds biodesign to the complementary disciplines of engineering and computation. This unique breadth of expertise offers significant advantages that speed and ease your path to biomanufacture. 

Antha expertise 

Antha is a programming language for biology. It describes and executes complex workflows, driving massive productivity gains during biodesign. We are long-term partners with Synthace and use Antha in our labs. We can help you discover the power of Antha to unlock your science and gather the data you need without limits.    

Meet the core team

"Biotechnology has the ability to unlock products that improve our lives in ways that have never been possible before." 
Sajith Wimalaratne

Sajith Wimalaratne

"Taking the big picture view, we want to help biotech companies get more products to market, in less time and for lower cost."
Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas

"As a biologist, I love being able to collaborate with colleagues with a vast array of skills and knowledge. Innovation is enabled by the multidisciplinary nature of CC and constantly being asked ‘but why?’ and ‘what else?’. Providing novel solutions to real world problems is very much at the heart of CC."
Frances Jones

Frances Jones

“Biotech has the potential to reshape the global economy and transform every sector in profound ways. Convergence of deep-technologies can enable and accelerate this. Working with our ambitious clients to realise their ideas and discoveries is tremendously rewarding.”
Frances Metcalfe

Frances Metcalfe

"Our clients are diverse, the science they are trying to deliver is novel. Every project brings the opportunity to gain a new understanding." 
 Ian Taylor

Tech, tools & facilities

Synthetic biology lab

Synthetic biology labs

Located in our Cambridge head office, our microbiology lab enables us to genetically modify micro-organisms and characterise them. Our facilities are containment level 2 rated for handling pathogenic strains and our in-house libraries allow rapid modular DNA construct design and assembly. We are particularly interested in building organisms that are biological sensors for healthcare and industrial biotech applications.

Life Science Labs

Life science labs

Our suite of restricted Class II laboratories are specifically designed for handling and experimentation of pharmaceuticals, licensed substances, biological hazards and human samples in a controlled and regulated environment. Our instrumentation rooms are equipped with metrology, microscopy and product test equipment for rigorous verification and quality assurance of prototypes and products.

Cell culture lab

Cell culture labs

Our life science and synthetic biology facilities are complemented by our recently established cell culture labs. They support our clients in the advanced therapies and medicinal products field to deliver the most advanced drugs on the planet. We’ve equipped them with tools to monitor, grow and store cells which are relevant to cell and gene therapy process development.

Case studies

Waveguide Case Study

A world first in NMR chemical analysis device productization

Helping a start-up company from breakthrough idea to a world-first device that liberates nuclear magnetic resonance testing from expensive labs to point of care

Ellume COVID-19 Home Test

A major milestone, enabled by our breakthrough sensing technology.

CATALOG DNA data encoding machine

Enabling the world's first DNA-based platform for massive data storage

Better Origin insect larvae rearing

Harnessing the science of synthetic biology and best-in-class automation to turn organic waste into high-protein fish food.

News & insights

Deep tech propel business in new bioeconomy
Whitepaper

How converging deep tech will propel business in the new bioeconomy

13th Oct 2023

Emerging deep tech like biotechnology and synthetic biology are shaping an exciting new bioeconomy. This CC Innovation Briefing offers a vision for its future, and explains how scalable, profitable and resilient bioprocesses will benefit businesses and sustainability.

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Press release

Cambridge Consultants announces its collaboration with MedTech Innovator, a world-leading non-profit start-up accelerator

13th Jul 2021

Cambridge Consultants part of Capgemini, today announced its collaboration with MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific, the world’s leading non-profit accelerator of medical devices

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eBook

Creating robust bioprocessing scale-down models

18th May 2021

Scale-down models have become an increasingly common development tool, especially in the bioprocessing industry. Read our eBook to discover our approach to the challenge of scaling up scale down models.

  • Bioinnovation
Press release

Flowfect™ Tx Revealed

28th Oct 2020

Cambridge Consultants & Kytopen announce the initial release of the Flowfect™ Tx System, a breakthrough that will help deliver the full promise of cell therapies to tackle disease.

Events

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Future food-tech 2024

21st Mar 2024 - 22nd Mar 2024
Marriot Marquis, San Francisco

Across the two-day programme, thought-leaders will delve into crucial topics ranging from tackling food and nutritional insecurity, to improving health through nutritional enhancement and leveraging food as medicine solutions. Expert speakers will explore the latest thinking on the role of AI in scaling alt-protein production, and the rapid growth of automation and robotics across the value chain.

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World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit 2024

19th Mar 2024 - 20th Mar 2024
Marriot Marquis, San Francisco

Come and meet our team to understand more about how we work with agri-tech clients to embrace and scale regenerative agriculture practices, accurately measure soil carbon and nutrient levels, and unlock the environmental benefits of biologicals in a cost-effective manner.