Lab Hotel

As part of SBC’s commitment to
supporting early-stage start-ups,
the Lab Hotel provides seven organisations with rent-free
space for six months

The Lab Hotel

As part of our commitment to supporting early-stage start-ups, the Lab Hotel provides seven organisations with rent-free space for six months in the Incubator building.

The Lab Hotel offers each start-up access to two spaces in a laboratory which contains both molecular biology and mammalian tissue culture equipment.

In addition, each occupier is allocated two office desks and can use shared facilities including the Community Lab and the Cytiva Technology Lab.

Lab Hotel Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst

250 sq ft

of space for each start-up

6 months

accommodation and support

Zero cost

facilities and support provided at no charge

7 start-ups

given scientific and business support

Business support

Being part of the Lab Hotel provides young companies with access to mentoring and introductions to the right investors for their stage of their development.

Businesses will have access to monthly networking events, panels and workshops on topics such as business strategy, intellectual property and funding. Other benefits include:

  • An invitation to join SBC’s quarterly CEO roundtable
  • Receive a free membership to One Nucleus
  • Access to scientific journals via GSK
  • Use of wide range of meeting rooms and a managed reception

SBC’s Lab Hotel has been extremely helpful to us. It enabled us
to work from a commercial, rather than university, setting
which helped us to present our company as a professional
entity and increased our understanding of an Incubator
facility. The lab and offices are well equipped and it has been
helpful to be able to interact with others in the cohort.

Ajay Mistry, PhD
founder and CEO of Oppilotech

SBC’s Lab Hotel has been extremely helpful to us. It enabled us to work from a commercial, rather than university, setting which helped us to present our company as a professional entity and increased our understanding of an Incubator
facility. The lab and offices are well equipped and it has been helpful to be able to interact with others in the cohort.

Ajay Mistry, PhD
founder and CEO of Oppilotech

Occupiers and Alumni

Genenet Technology integrates deep learning neural networks into the gene circuit design. This unleashes genetic design into previously impossible applications.

Neobe Therapeutics

Neobe is developing a platform for the engineering of programmable live biotherapeutics, which can colonize solid tumours and remodel their local microenvironment.

Inspira Pharmaceuticals is a preclinical biotech company developing proprietary plant-based enzymes for therapeutic applications.

Serna Bio is an early stage AI enabled biotech combining in vitro assays and in silico models to discover small molecules targeting RNA.

ImmTune Therapies is developing gene delivery vectors for specific modification of immune cells inside a patient’s body, enabling an in vivo cell therapy process.

Nuntius Therapeutics is developing novel delivery vectors for DNA, RNA and CRISPR therapies to enable the delivery of large genetic payloads into the correct cells.

Stratosvir is developing viral immunotherapy which has the potential to drastically improve the clinical treatment of solid tumours and their metastases.

Oppilotech has developed a high-resolution platform to model biological processes in cells enabling them to identify viable drug targets.

How to apply for the Lab Hotel

Spaces become available on a six monthly basis and there is an application process for new occupiers.

Selection criteria:

The Lab Hotel is open to start-ups that:

  • are developing therapeutics
  • have a wet-lab component
  • have pre-series A funding in place
Lab Hotel at Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst