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Antikor Biopharma Limited

UK company 04170519, incorporated on 1 March 2001.

Antibody Drug Conjugates | Antikor

Antikor Biopharma Limited is a UK company with status Active founded in 2001 based in London.

Company number
04170519
Incorporated
1 Mar 2001
Companies House status
Active

Company identity

Founded / incorporated
1 March 2001

Company number 04170519

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Legal name
ANTIKOR BIOPHARMA LIMITED
Company type
Private Limited Company
Region
London
Registered address
80 CHEAPSIDE
LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM
EC2V 6EE
Insolvency history
No

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

7 events
26 Jun
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

15 Oct
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

15 Jul
2026

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22 Jun
2026

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Confirmation-statement

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12 Jun
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Jul
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

01 Mar
2001

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

12 awards
First funded
2012
Funded years
2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
Age at first award
11 years

Projects

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Next-generation immuno-modulatory conjugates for solid tumours

1 Aug 2024 to 31 Jan 2026

Awarded
£496,767
Total cost £709,667

Antikor Biopharma is pioneering an innovative drug delivery technology called OptiLink, specifically-tailored for solid tumours. It is unique by utilising optimally-engineered, small-format, tumour-specific antibodies with appropriately-designed linkers to deliver therapeutic payloads deep into tumours. Unlike its competitors, who use full-size antibody-d...

2023 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Harnessing FDC technology for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)

1 Apr 2023 to 30 Sep 2024

Awarded
£499,155
Total cost £713,079

Antikor Biopharma is pioneering an innovative drug delivery platform called OptiLink, tailored for solid tumours. It is unique by utilising specially-engineered, small-format, tumour-specific antibodies with appropriately-designed linkers to specifically deliver potent cytotoxic payloads deep into tumours. Unlike its competitors, who use full-size antibod...

2022 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Advanced preclinical development of a solid tumour-tailored gastric cancer therapy

1 Apr 2022 to 31 Mar 2024

Awarded
£1,242,165
Total cost £1,774,522

Antikor Biopharma is pioneering an innovative drug delivery platform called OptiLink. It harnesses the immune system by using tumour-seeking antibodies to specifically deliver potent cytotoxic payloads to tumours. Unlike its competitors, who use full antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), Antikor's technology enables much smaller fragment-drug conjugates (FDCs)...

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Gastric Cancer Antibody Fragment Drug Conjugate: Promising candidate to manufacturable product (Continuation)

1 Jun 2020 to 28 Feb 2021

Awarded
£120,300
Total cost £120,300

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2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Accelerated Coronavirus clearance immunotherapy

1 Jun 2020 to 28 Feb 2021

Awarded
£74,963
Total cost £74,963

The COVID-19 pandemic is the 3rd-known coronaviral-disease with an alarmingly-high transmission rate. These incidences will keep returning and we must be prepared with innovative technologies to combat future epidemics/pandemics. Vaccinations are the gold-standard but this may not always be successful and can have adverse effects and/or lead to incomplete...

2019 Study Lead participant

Gastric Cancer Antibody Fragment Drug Conjugate: Promising candidate to manufacturable product

1 Dec 2019 to 31 May 2021

Awarded
£349,467
Total cost £499,238

Antikor Biopharma is pioneering an innovative drug delivery platform called OptiLink. It harnesses the immune system by using miniaturised tumour-specific antibodies to specifically deliver high quantities of potent cytotoxic payloads to tumours. Unlike its competitors, who use full antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), Antikor's technology enables much smalle...

2019 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Improved Linkers for Antibody Fragment Drug Conjugates

1 Feb 2019 to 31 Jul 2020

Awarded
£365,629
Total cost £522,328

"Antikor is developing a novel and disruptive platform for oncology drug delivery called **Fragment Drug Conjugates (FDC)**. Here, cytotoxic payloads are specifically delivered to solid tumours. Our platform differentiates from other similar Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADC) approaches in that our format can penetrate tumours faster and more effectively, del...

2017 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Antibody Fragment Drug Conjugates - Overcoming the challenge in treating Gastric Cancer

1 Jan 2017 to 31 Dec 2018

Awarded
£809,960
Total cost £1,169,280

Antikor Biopharma is pioneering an innovative drug delivery platform called OptiLink. It harnesses the immune system by using tumour-seeking antibodies to specifically deliver potent cytotoxic payloads to tumours. Unlike its competitors, who use full antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), Antikor’s technology enables much smaller fragment-drug conjugates (FDCs)...

2014 GRD Proof of Concept Lead participant

Novel, multi-action payloads for antibody drug conjugates

1 Dec 2014 to 31 May 2016

Awarded
£100,000
Total cost £199,618

Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) are a new wave of targeted cancer therapies that promise dramatically increased survival with significantly lower side effects. Potent toxic “payloads” are attached to tumour-cell specific targeting vehicles called antibodies. This is an early technology with only 2 approved products. There is still a need to develop improv...

2013 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

A theranostic approach for gastric cancer

1 Nov 2013 to 31 Oct 2014

Awarded
£91,476
Total cost £121,969

Gastric cancer is a major unmet clinical need and a significant business opportunity. Treatment options are few and endoscopic investigation and treatment need advances to improve success rates and patient survival. PhotoBiotics Ltd, University College London's (UCL)-Chemistry and UCL's-National Medical Laser Centre are strengthening their partnership wit...

2013 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Antibody Directed Phototherapy for Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma

1 Jun 2013 to 30 Sep 2015

Awarded
£210,012
Total cost £350,253

Oesophageal Cancer is rapidly rising and is the 4th largest cancer killer in men. This project supports combining PhotoBiotics' proprietary OptiLink technology and its own drugs with experts from Imperial College and University College London National Medical Laser Centre to develop a novel antibody-directed phototherapy (ADP) drug to treat cancer. These ...

2012 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

OptiLinked Antibody Drug Conjugates for Cancer Therapy

1 Nov 2012 to 31 Jan 2014

Awarded
£94,200
Total cost £125,725

PhotoBiotics is a biotechnology company established from Imperial College London to develop antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) to treat cancer and other associated diseases. Its patented OptiLink platform enables high drug loading of small antibody fragments leading to enhanced formulation, tumour specificity, reduced side effects and high potency. In this T...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies GRD Proof of Concept Study