CellCentric wins Business of the Year at 36th Business Weekly Awards ahead of tipped US IPO

Tony Quested writes: CEO Will West winged in from New York as his company CellCentric won the 36th annual Business Weekly Awards' coveted Business of the Year crown at Queens' College.

Image CellCentric CEO Will West (centre) with guest speaker Tim Minshall and Zickie Lim from lead Awards sponsor Mills & Reeve. Credit: Business Weekly © Phil Mynott

CellCentric, which has Cambridge facilities at Chesterford Research Park in the UK and Boston in the States, is tipped to float in the US next year, adding its heft to the likes of Arm, AstraZeneca, Bicycle Therapeutics, Quantinuum and RedCloud from the Cambridge Cluster.

CellCentric is developing inobrodib, an oral, first-in-class small molecule inhibitor of p300/CBP, for the treatment of multiple myeloma and other cancers.

Zickie Lim, of lead forensic sponsor Mills & Reeve, and guest speaker Tim Minshall - Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge and head of the Institute for Manufacturing - made the announcement.

Full List of 36th Business Weekly Award Winners

Business of the Year: CellCentric

Startup of the Year: Barocal

Life Science Innovation: bit.bio

Life Science Scale-Up: Sortera Bio

Life Science Entrepreneur: Muhunthan Thillai (Qureight)

Technology Entrepreneur: Dr Chiraz Ennaceur (CorrosionRADAR)

AI Innovation: Luminance

Cambridge Spark Female Founder in AI: Erin McGurk

Disruptive Technology: Redtail Telematics

Technology Scale-Up: Kigen

Sir Michael Marshall Engineering Excellence: Blighter

Sustainability Champion: Pragmatic Semiconductor

Genomics Excellence: SPT Labtech

UK-US Healthtech Alliance: Owlstone Medical

Cambridge Science & Technology Torchbearer: Cyclana Bio

Cambridge Judge Graduate Business: TRIMTECH Therapeutics

The Pathfinder Award: Syndex Bio

International Trade: Secondmind

Quoted Company: Arecor Therapeutics

Deal of the Year: Astex Pharmaceuticals

Collaboration of the Year: CommonAI

Event Sponsors

The annual awards are backed by key Cambridge ecosystem partners including Alan Boswell Insurance Brokers, Arm, AstraZeneca, Barclays, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge Management Consulting, Cambridge Network, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge Spark, Chesterford Research Park, Howard Group, Innovate Cambridge, London Stansted, Marshall Aerospace, Mills & Reeve, PwC, Quantinuum, Railpen, St John's Innovation Centre, Savills and the Wellcome Genome Campus.

Image: CellCentric CEO Will West (centre) with guest speaker Tim Minshall and Zickie Lim from lead Awards sponsor Mills & Reeve. Credit: Business Weekly © Phil Mynott


 



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