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Bactobio

Uncovering solutions from biological dark matter

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21-100 employees
  • Biology
  • Science
  • Biotechnology
Vauxhall, London, UK

Company mission

To create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.

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57% female employees

Our take

With the highest genetic diversity of any organisms on earth, bacteria hold tremendous potential for novel treatments, gene therapy, and commercial applications. But to this day, under 1% of all bacteria have been cultured in labs for chemical discovery.

Bactobio is a biotechnology company helping realise the full potential locked in bacteria, by harvesting bacterial metabolites from biological dark matter. Its Bacterial Community Cultivation platform enables new bacteria to be cultured and screened for novel applications.

In order to make more ground-breaking discoveries, Bactobio is expanding its business operations team. By seeking to strengthen brand awareness and market analysis, as well as guide the core direction of the company, it is setting out to help define the future of biotechnology.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • New lab and office space in central London
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Bike2work scheme
  • Enhanced Sick Pay
  • Weekly team activities including board games, sports activities, and socials on Fridays
  • Complimentary snacks, fruits, tea, coffee, soft drinks...
  • Flexible start and finish times within the company’s core hours
  • Diverse team of colleagues (check out our website to meet us)

Company values

  • Impact
  • Empowerment
  • Collaboration

Leadership

Dr Daniel Hansen

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Having worked for 2 years at Barclays, Daniel took a PhD at Imperial and became a LMU Munich Exist Fellow, before co-founding Bactobio in July 2019.

Dr Mark Wilkinson

(Co-founder & CSO)

Mark joined Bactobio in 2020 and oversees scientific projects from microbial generation through to compound discovery.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Bactobio

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Magdalena Kowalczyk (People Ops Lead)

  • We empower women in STEM through inclusive recruitment and raising awareness of DEI benefits for the business
  • We build international teams through visa sponsorship and global recruitment strategies. We are proud that our team comes from over 15 nationalities across 6 continents!
  • We carefully consider our recruitment practices ensuring a diverse candidate representation, crafting inclusive job descriptions, providing awareness training for hiring managers, setting shortlist targets, and removing unnecessary application information that may lead to unconscious recruitment bias

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