Building a resilient bioeconomy will rely on innovative research and technologies, new supply chains and skills, as well as strong partnerships with industry. BioYorkshire has an excellent track-record of working with industry.

Backing the programme, UK Science Minister George Freeman has recently visited Yorkshire for updates on the BioYorkshire initiative, stating “this is becoming a global cluster of excellence, and we’ve come today to see what we can do to help it grow”

Our Role in the National Laboratories Alliance

As an active member of the NLA, we work with our partners to apply our unique skills and expertise in food, environment, chemical safety and laboratory proficiency assessment to respond to national needs as part of the UK’s total capability.

More details of the NLA and its full scope and membership can be found here

Your expert Science and Technical Advisor for Climate-Focused Investments, Agriculture and Sustainability Strategies.

• Expertise: Leveraging our century-long heritage in environmental and food security to guide climate-conscious investments.
• Insight: Offering deep understanding of agri-food-environment sectors to select genuine, sustainable investment opportunities.
• Network: Connecting you with industry leaders, government bodies, and academic institutions.
• Innovation: Pioneering solutions in food, agriculture and sustainability, ensuring you are at the forefront of change

We can support you in a number of ways:

• Core Services - Science Development Team (SDT) DD on tech readiness, market position, robustness of science and regulatory challenges.
• Optional Project Services – Provision of wider SDT consultancy, including option for embedding on secondment / rotation / NEDs.
• Additional Opportunity – Spin-out of Fera IP through Fund investment on merit basis. Investment as minor LP or as part of syndicate.
• Wider areas of collaboration - Joint thought leadership material, MVP sand-pit development, targeted service offerings to portfolio companies at preferential rates, and support to fund marketing.

Bridging the gap between research and impact across the whole food system, original thinking to support sustainable global food production.

• Clear visibility and understanding of market / customer needs
• World-leading expertise in agri-food-environment
• Deep understanding of Sector
• Commitment to Innovation
• Direct access to specialist testing capabilities and facilities
• Proven track record

Damian Malins   

Venturing Director

Alex Setchfield  

Venturing Business Scientist

Traditional diagnostics applied on samples with typical field symptoms of MLN have often given negative results using ELISA or PCR (polymerase chain reaction) for MCMV and Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV). Samples collected in the field with typical MLN symptoms were examined using next generation sequencing (NGS).

PROteINSECT brought together expertise from China, Africa and Europe to encourage and enable the adoption of fly larval protein in animal feed around the world. The PROteINSECT project consortium consisted of 12 partners from seven countries and was co-ordinated by Fera Science.

Within the context of an existing disease (Cassava Mosaic Disease, CMD) and an emergent disease (Cassava Brown Streak Disease, CBSD), The Great Lakes Cassava Initiative (GLCI) had an overall goal of distributing clean planting material of disease tolerant or resistant varieties to 1.15 million farmers to six countries—Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda—during the four years of the project period.