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Censo Biotechnologies Ltd

Axol Bioscience. Human iPSCs for better human disease models.

At Axol Bioscience we use iPSCs to build more relevant models of human disease to expand your understanding and de-risk drug development.

CRN
SC348293
Founded
2008
Age
17

Overview

Legal name
CENSO BIOTECHNOLOGIES LTD
Region
Scotland
Registered address
ROSLIN INNOVATION CENTRE CHARNOCK BRADLEY BUILDING
EASTER BUSH CAMPUS
MIDLOTHIAN
SCOTLAND
EH25 9RG
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

Updated 06 Jun 2026 16:52

Censo Biotechnologies Ltd
No active corporate controller recorded.

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

7 events
30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

23 Sep
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

09 Sep
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

30 Sep
2024

Accounts With Accounts Type Small

Accounts PDF pending

AA | Transaction MzQzNzQ4MzE2MWFkaXF6a2N4 | Paper/PDF filed

Published 02 Oct 2024 06:16

16 Sep
2024

Confirmation Statement With Updates

Confirmation-statement

CS01 | Transaction MzQzNjAyMTQ2MGFkaXF6a2N4

Published 16 Sep 2024 14:49

09 Sep
2008

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

4 awards
First funded
2012
Funded years
2012, 2013, 2017, 2018
Age at first award
3 years

Projects

2018 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Censo Alveolar Macrophage for COPD

1 Nov 2018 to 31 Jul 2019

Awarded
£69,242
Total cost £98,917

"In the UK today, over 1.2 million people suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) which costs the NHS over £1.5 billion. Patients suffering from COPD are unable to empty air out of their lungs because their airways have been narrowed, mainly due to bronchitis and emphysema. The disease profoundly limits the quality of life of its suffers....

2017 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Patient Derived iPSCs for High Grade Glioma (PDi:HGG)

1 Jun 2017 to 31 May 2019

Awarded
£700,330
Total cost £1,000,472

The typical patient diagnosed with Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), which constitutes 45% of all malignant primary brain and CNS tumours, is aged 50-60 and will survive 15 months after diagnosis. The Patient Derived iPSCs for High Grade Glioma (PDi:HGG) project will provide a new strategy for researchers to develop treatments specifically for this cancer. I...

2013 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Use of a Novel Cell Printer to Create, Analyse and Optimise 3D Liver Tissues

1 Jul 2013 to 30 Jun 2014

Awarded
£117,432
Total cost £156,576

Human liver hepatocytes are extremely valuable cells both for drug development laboratories and for patients whose own livers have become damaged either through viral infections, poor diet and/or long term excessive alcohol consumption. There is already a shortage of donor livers for transplantation and this is set to worsen in the future as liver failure...

2012 Collaborative R&D

Cell labelling for in vivo use and in process quality control

1 Feb 2012 to 30 Sep 2015

Awarded
£52,436
Total cost £87,393

The consortium of Altrika, the University of Edinburgh’s School of Chemistry, Roslin Cellab and Barts and The London bring R&D, manufacturing, clinical and commercialisation experience to the challenge of tracking clinically relevant cell populations in vitro and in vivo. The absence of an in vivo tracking methodology leads to R&D, manufacturing and clini...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies