PBD Biotech's game changing bovine TB test gains funding
PBD Biotech has secured £2.3m funding for OIE validation of its rapid, accurate TB test.
Top innovation award for Actiphage rapid tuberculosis test
Actiphage®, the rapid TB test from PBD Biotech, has been awarded the Innovation Award 2021 by Veterinary Record, the official journal of the British Veterinary Association (BVA).
PBD Biotech welcomes BVA 'one health' approach to eradication of Bovine TB
Allowing farmers with Official Tuberculosis Free (OTF) status to use APHA approved but currently un-validated tests for Bovine TB (bTB) is one of the recommendations of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) in its recent policy statement. PBD Biotech, developers of Actiphage, a rapid blood test for bTB, has welcomed this ‘one health’ approach as it empowers…
PBD Biotech closes seed funding round
Bovine TB is one of a group of diseases caused by mycobacteria that has devastated the agricultural industry worldwide. Now UK agri-tech start-up PBD Biotech, developers of the first rapid test for live mycobacteria, has secured £400,000 in its first major strategic investment round to fund international trials and launch a suite of products.
APHA protocol grants access to new Actiphage technology for chronic TB breakdowns
The government has published a protocol permitting 'exceptional private use' of a new six-hour test on TB stricken herds in England.
PBD Biotech features in EDP
A review of the new East Anglian start-up PBD Biotech business appeared in the Eastern Daily Press (EDP) today (September 1st).
PBD Biotech closes oversubscribed seed investment round
PBD Biotech has closed a seed investment round through contributions from Anglia Capital Group and Cambridge Agritech to launch its proprietary Mycobacterial detection technology. The company uses phage technology for rapid detection of live bacteria with high sensitivity and specificity in animal tissues.
PBD Biotech prepares to launch Mycobacterial diagnostic service in East Anglia
Using its proprietary technology for detecting the presence of live Mycobacteria at high levels of sensitivity, PBD Biotech will launch its service in September 2017.
PBD Biotech wins Innovation Award for Mycobacterial detection technology
PBD Biotech Ltd, a Suffolk, UK-based company has won the top Innovation award for Crop or Livestock technology at the Ag-in-Motion Expo in Saskatoon, Canada.
PBD Biotech wins competition to present to Canadian agricultural industry
PBD Biotech Ltd has won a competition organised by the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority (SREDA) as part of their HARVEST Programme. This programme is designed to bring selected international companies to Western Canada’s Outdoor Farm Expo to present their technology to the Canadian agricultural industry.