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Qkine Limited

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High purity, bioactive recombinant cytokine proteins and growth factors made for stem cell, organoid and regenerative medicine.

CRN
10470662
Founded
2016
Age
9

Overview

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Legal name
QKINE LIMITED
Region
East of England
Registered address
C/O MISHCON DE REYA
FOUR STATION SQUARE
CAMBRIDGE
ENGLAND
CB1 2GE
Insolvency history
No

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
31 Dec
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

15 Jun
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

01 Jun
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Mar
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

03 Sep
2024

Termination Secretary Company With Name Termination Date

Officers

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09 Nov
2016

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Spinout profile

3 entries

Company description

Qkine develops substances designed to stimulate cellular growth in regenerative medicine applications.

Qkine uses proprietary protein purification and engineering technology to make the highest recombinant proteins for stem cell research and regenerative medicine applications.

Project impact

The company has operated as a embedded company in Dr Hyvonen's laboratory for the past two years with two full time laboratory staff (one researcher and one research assistant), with Dr Hyvonen as the CSO of the company. The company has launced half a dozen products on the market with steady R&D pipeline expected to result on average one new product per month. The company was awarded an Innovagte UK grant in 2017 for the development of growth factors for organoid research. The company is just finishing its second funding round and expects to move to its own premises in late March/early April and have up to 5 scientific staff by the end of the year. The company is already trading and gaining traction in the market with sales both in UK and worldwide.

Qkine
2016
QKINE LIMITED
2016

Public funding

4 awards
First funded
2017
Funded years
2017, 2021, 2025
Age at first award
1 years

Projects

2025 Innovation Loans Lead participant

Developing an industry-leading bioactive TGF beta family product portfolio for stem cell culture, cultivated meat, 3D organ modelling, precision oncology and cell therapy manufacturing

15 Apr 2025 to 15 Apr 2027

Awarded
£765,480
Total cost £765,480

Qkine combines proprietary animal-free biomanufacturing processes with protein engineering technology. Leveraging our expertise and manufacturing process development platform, we will develop a unique animal-origin-free, high-purity TGF beta family product portfolio to accelerate stem cell science, overcome specific drug discovery barriers, and solve fund...

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Fully animal-free manufacture of optimised growth factors: underpinning sustainable and scalable organoid culture for precision medicine, drug discovery and regenerative medicine applications

29 Mar 2021 to 29 Mar 2023

Awarded
£450,000
Total cost £475,805

Organoids are 3-dimensional (3D) clusters of stem cells that come together and emulate the microenvironment within individual organs, whether that be liver, kidney, heart, gut or other specific organs. Essentially, they can be viewed as miniature, simplified organs. They typically range in size from a few micrometers to five millimeters and there are pote...

2021 Collaborative R&D

Fully synthetic animal-free scaffolds: the future of sustainable and scalable organoid culture

1 Jan 2021 to 30 Sep 2021

Awarded
£41,288
Total cost £51,610

Organoids are 3-dimensional (3D) clusters of stem cells that come together and emulate the microenvironment within individual organs, whether that be liver, kidney, heart, gut or other specific organs. Essentially, they can be viewed as miniature, simplified organs. They typically range in size from a few micrometers to five millimeters and there are pote...

2017 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Next generation growth factors for organoid-driven precision medicine

1 Dec 2017 to 30 Nov 2018

Awarded
£68,463
Total cost £97,804

One of the most exciting developments in biological research is the development of miniature three-dimensional structures that mimic mammalian organs such as gut, pancreas, lung and, in the case of cancer, tumours. These so-called organoids allow us to study the structure, development and function of these organs in highly controlled environment and most ...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies Innovation Loans