Biotech Start-up Moves Into Oxford Trust’s Wood Centre For Innovation
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Samsara Therapeutics, a biotech start-up, is the first company to take up laboratory space at The Oxford Trust’s Wood Centre for Innovation, Labmate Online reports. The new life science laboratories have been built in response to the extra demand for biotech workspace that has emerged during the past 12 months.
The Oxford Trust is a local charity dedicated to supporting science and enterprise. The Wood Centre for Innovation offers a range of flexible workspaces, from research and development facilities, labs and workshops, to private offices and co-working spaces. The facilities are situated in Headington, at the heart of one of the UK’s leading technology clusters.
The £0.5m development is partly funded by the government’s Local Growth Fund, which was secured by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership. There is a significant demand in the area for lab space from new science and tech start-ups.
Samsara Therapeutics is an early-stage drug discovery company. Their research includes developing therapies for extending healthy aging and treating age-related and genetic diseases such as Alzheimer’s. The company was founded in 2018, and also has bases in Oxford and Boston.
Steve Burgess, CEO, The Oxford Trust, said: “A warm welcome to Samsara who will join us at the Wood Centre for Innovation later this Spring. A biotech start-up working on breakthrough research is exactly the type of company the Trust continues to support and help on their journey to success.”
“We would also like to thank OxLEP for their continued support of not just The Trust and our charitable aims but Oxfordshire’s innovation ecosystem. With this national government funding we are able to quickly pivot to meet the significant demand from companies such as Samsara needing specific lab space.”
The state-of-the-art facilities at Headington are set in 15-acres of woodland, and easily accessible from the clinical research site at The University of Oxford’s Old Road Campus. They are also near to local hospitals, and Oxford Brookes University. If the development proves successful, The Trust hope to expand the site in the future.
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