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Biotech companies at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026

Oct 14–15, 2026 London, UK ~3k attendees Website

27 biotech companies are at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 — 20 presentations on the program and 8 with a booth in the exhibit hall. Most represented: Ignota Labs (2 on the program), Creasallis (1 on the program), Amphista Therapeutics (1 on the program). 11 of them have their own page in this guide. As of Oct 8, 2026.

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Showing 1–19 of 27 organizations
OrganizationELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 Attendance
Ignota Labs
Cambridge, UK
Biotech
AI company rescuing failed or shelved drug candidates by solving safety problems and creating new chemistry and IP.
Talk
Thu Oct 15
12:40pm–1:10pm
Giving failed drugs a second chance with AI
AI in medicinal chemistry
Panel
Thu Oct 15
3:30pm–4:00pm
Panel session - Beyond the Pitch: Navigating the Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship
Breakthrough Zone - Bridging the critical gap between discovery and successful commercialisation · with Creasallis, MFX
Creasallis
Cambridge, UK
Biotech
Develops a modification that helps antibodies and conjugates penetrate deeper into solid tumours, alongside its own oncology antibody programs.
Talk
Thu Oct 15
3:00pm–3:30pm
No Entry Required: How I Broke Into Building a Biotech When Antibodies Couldn't Break Into Tumours
Breakthrough Zone - Bridging the critical gap between discovery and successful commercialisation
Panel
Thu Oct 15
3:30pm–4:00pm
Panel session - Beyond the Pitch: Navigating the Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship
Breakthrough Zone - Bridging the critical gap between discovery and successful commercialisation · with MFX, Ignota Labs
Biotech
Develops small-molecule medicines based on targeted protein degradation.
Chair
Thu Oct 15
10:50am–10:55am
Track Chair - From multi-omics to clinical outcomes: Insights for drug development
How much molecular data and how many participants early studies need, and which signals from large biological datasets can be trusted.
with Moderna
Apollo Therapeutics
Cambridge, UK
Biotech
Biotech developing a portfolio of medicines built on academic science, with programmes in oncology and immunology.
Talk
Wed Oct 14
2:40pm–3:10pm
From Idea to Clinic: Lessons from Apollo
Translating ideas into therapies - Navigating the challenges
Artios Pharma
Cambridge, UK
Biotech
Develops DNA damage response medicines for cancer, including small molecules and payloads for antibody-drug conjugates.
Talk
Wed Oct 14
4:30pm–5:00pm
Discovery and Characterisation of ADCs with a Novel DDRi Payload
Targeted potency: Advances in radioligands and bioconjugates
Biotech
Develops pre|CISION peptide drug conjugates whose cytotoxic payloads are released when FAP cleaves them in the tumour microenvironment.
Talk
Wed Oct 14
3:45pm–4:15pm
Biotech
Develops medicines from bicyclic peptides, including toxin and radionuclide conjugates for solid tumours.
Talk
Wed Oct 14
11:20am–11:50am
Precision Guided Radiotherapeutics: Bicycle® Radionuclide Conjugates (BRC®) as next generation treatment options for solid tumours
Targeted potency: Advances in radioligands and bioconjugates
Biotech
Develops antibody therapies for immune-driven disease, including an anti-S100A4 antibody for chronic inflammatory and fibrotic conditions.
Talk
Wed Oct 14
3:45pm–4:15pm
Constructive Bio
Cambridge, UK
Biotech
Expands the genetic code to build proteins containing new-to-nature chemical building blocks for next-generation therapeutics.
Panel
Thu Oct 15
9:30am–10:15am
Keynote Panel - 20 Years of Discovery: Lessons from the Past, Blueprints for the Next 20
What two decades of change in drug discovery, from high-throughput screening to AI design, teach about building the next generation of medicines.
with Omega Funds, OtoImmune, GSK +1 more
Biotech
Women's health start-up studying menstrual-fluid-derived tissue and the extracellular matrix to find treatments for endometriosis.
Talk
Thu Oct 15
11:55am–12:25pm
Building a tissue platform for drug discovery: when clinical and biological sciences meet in endometriosis
From sample to translation: Solving the practical challenges of modern drug discovery
Biotech
AI company building digital twins of cells from multi-omics data to prioritise targets and support drug repositioning.
Talk
Wed Oct 14
3:45pm–4:15pm
TwinCell: Large Causal Cell Model for Reliable and Interpretable Therapeutic Target Prioritisation
Integrating experimental design, lab-in-the-loop and AI towards translatable discovery
ExpressionEdits
Cambridge, UK
Biotech
Adds introns to synthetic gene designs, guided by an AI engine, to raise expression of hard-to-make therapeutic proteins.
Talk
Wed Oct 14
12:20pm–12:50pm
Introns: From Nature to Design
Translating ideas into therapies - Navigating the challenges
Iksuda Therapeutics
Newcastle, UK
Biotech
Develops antibody-drug conjugates for hard-to-treat cancers, including a new protein-alkylating payload class.
Talk
Wed Oct 14
2:00pm–2:30pm
Development of ADCs with enhanced therapeutic potential
Targeted potency: Advances in radioligands and bioconjugates
Isomorphic Labs
London, UK
Biotech
AI drug discovery company, spun out of Google DeepMind, building predictive models to design new medicines.
Chair
Thu Oct 15
10:50am–10:55am
Track Chair- Innovation Zone
How early-stage life science companies raise money, carry discoveries toward market and build portfolios, and where such efforts commonly fail.
with Amilon Bio
Molecular Partners
Zurich, Switzerland
Biotech
Clinical-stage biotech developing DARPin protein therapeutics.
Talk
Thu Oct 15
10:55am–11:25am
Integrating omics and clinical data to elucidate the outcomes Phase 1 trials of DARPin therapeutics
From multi-omics to clinical outcomes: Insights for drug development
Nxera Pharma
Tokyo, Japan
Biotech
Biopharma company, formerly Sosei Heptares, combining structure-based GPCR drug design with a commercial business in Japan.
Talk
Wed Oct 14
11:20am–11:50am
Targeting the GI tract by design, from inception to the clinic
Translating ideas into therapies - Navigating the challenges
Biotech
Precision immunology start-up aiming to detect, monitor and treat autoimmune and other immune-driven inflammatory conditions earlier.
Panel
Thu Oct 15
9:30am–10:15am
Keynote Panel - 20 Years of Discovery: Lessons from the Past, Blueprints for the Next 20
What two decades of change in drug discovery, from high-throughput screening to AI design, teach about building the next generation of medicines.
with Constructive Bio, Omega Funds, GSK +1 more
Unnatural Products
Santa Cruz, CA
Biotech
Develops synthetic macrocyclic peptide drugs aiming for antibody-like potency and selectivity with oral delivery.
Biotech
Developing restoration therapeutics that aim to restore healthy function in specific cell types, starting with neural and skin programmes.
Booth
Exhibiting (no floor booth listed)
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Exhibiting in the Breakthrough Zone (start-ups and emerging companies)

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