TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture
systems and consumables for life science applications, is delighted to announce
it has been awarded the University College London (UCL) Small to Medium
Enterprise Partner of the Year Award 2012.
The Award, presented at a ceremony at UCL's campus in Bloomsbury has been awarded because of the close
collaboration between the company and UCL researchers, producing valuable
research with commercial potential.TAP Biosystems first began their
collaboration with UCL research staff four years ago, after breakthroughs in
creating biomimetic tissues, invented by Professor Robert Brown. TAP licensed
the technology and a portfolio of patents from UCL Business, the technology
transfer company of UCL and brought them to market.
Following provision of funding from the Technology Strategy Board,
TAP and Professor Brown, along with Professor Julie Daniels of the Institute of
Ophthalmology, collaborated on developing a system for producing 3D tissue
constructs, and then adapted this for use with corneal stem cells to make more
complex corneal constructs.
The collaboration has resulted in patented technology, published
research and - for TAP - the launch of a commercial product, which is a system
designed to enable researchers to make realistic tissue equivalents simply and
reproducibly.
The Award for TAP is one of a dozen presented to academics,
corporate partners and student and graduate entrepreneurs, including a
Corporate Partner of the Year Award for mining company BHP Billiton, and
funding totalling £100,000 to kick-start the development of student and
graduate businesses.
Dr Rosemary Drake, Chief Scientific Officer at TAP Biosystems,
said: "TAP Biosystems is very honoured to have won this award. Since beginning
our partnership with UCL four years ago, our collaboration has gone from
strength to strength, resulting in three further projects, all of which have
strong commercial potential."
Dr Drake added: "Working with UCL has been a win-win for both the
fortunes of TAP Biosystems and for people who will eventually benefit from the
treatments we are developing through our partnership."
Commenting on the Award for TAP Biosystems, Professor Stephen
Caddick, Vice-Provost (Enterprise) at UCL, said: "UCL is a world-class innovator
in medical sciences, and TAP Biosystems has been a key partner for UCL in
ensuring research - in particular in ophthalmology - is brought to market and
to ultimately improve the health of people both in the UK and beyond."
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