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OSE Annual Shareholder Event 2025: Watch the highlights

A packed room at The Ned in London set the tone for this year’s Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) Annual Shareholder...

AlveoGene: Creating inhaled therapies for rare respiratory disease

On Rare Disease Day 2026, we explore AlveoGene – the company developing inhaled gene therapies for rare diseases that are currently fatal. It’s a research story 25 years in the making.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Conversations on empowering women in science

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked women in our HealthTech, Life Sciences and Deep Tech teams how we can move from awareness to action.

Oxford Ionics: Reimagining quantum computing

From academic breakthrough to $1bn acquisition – a story of deep science, patient capital, and bold ambition.

Ultromics: Tackling hidden heart failure at scale

Ultromics is transforming how we detect heart disease. Its AI tool EchoGo® reveals hard-to-spot signs of heart failure, helping close one of medicine’s deadliest diagnostic gaps.

Professor Dame Carol Robinson: From lab assistant to biotech pioneer

From school drop-out to professor at Oxford and biotech founder, Dame Carol Robinson’s journey has changed the future of drug discovery.

Leadership Spotlight: Katherine Ward, HealthTech

Katherine Ward has spent her career working at the intersection of innovation and adoption in the HealthTech space. 

Alethio: Innovative medicines for chronic blood cancer

Alethio Therapeutics is redefining how we treat incurable blood cancers – by targeting the cells that drive them.

Snowfox: Accelerating natural hydrogen’s Net Zero potential

How a unique team of experts founded a clean energy pioneer – thanks to strategic partnerships and venture building support from Oxford Science Enterprises.

Precision genetic work carried out in the Nucleome Therapeutics lab

Nucleome: Unlocking the molecular basis of disease

How Nucleome Therapeutics is decoding the ‘non-coding genome’ to accelerate drug discovery breakthroughs.

Kneu Health: Reimagining neurology care with continuous patient insights

Kneu Health uses AI and a smartphone app to support better diagnosis, treatment, and care for people with dementia and Parkinson’s.

Fractile: Silicon and infrastructure to smash AI’s hardware bottleneck

Founded by visionary scientist Walter Goodwin, Fractile is designing powerful, efficient silicon to radically scale the next generation of AI.

Beacon: Ocular gene therapy to fight blindness

The OSE spinout that’s pioneering gene therapies to slow or stop blindness caused by retinal diseases.

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