About

We invest to extend and enhance human life

We aim to build and maintain a diversified portfolio of 20-25 globally leading life science businesses, across development stage, modality and therapeutic area, for the benefit of all our stakeholders. We focus on developing treatments that deliver patient impact by working in close partnership with world-class academic founders and experienced management teams.

Our business in numbers

Unless stated all financials at 31 December 2024

14

Portfolio companies

£780m

Value of life science portfolio

£345m

Capital pool

37

Members of the team

92%

Investment team with PhDs

25

Portfolio company Board seats

A vision to unlock the potential from truly innovative science to transform patients’ lives

We do this by creating, building and scaling companies to turn exceptional science into transformational treatments to patients in areas of high unmet need.

Who we are

A multidisciplinary team

The life sciences investment team members have deep technical scientific backgrounds, supplemented by strong commercial experience ranging from venture capital investment to pharmaceutical launch. 

Our people

Supporting UK life science

The UK has a thriving life sciences industry and world-class research infrastructure. Syncona is committed to supporting this via its work with academics, its portfolio companies, and co-investors, as well as through its membership of the BioIndustry Association (BIA), the voice of the life sciences and biotech industry in the UK.