The PBD Biotech international management team brings together expertise in diagnostics, clinical and veterinary science, disease management and policy.
About PBD Biotech
PBD Biotech has developed a phage-based diagnostic for tuberculosis - a powerful tool in the fight to eradicate this devastating disease.
PBD Biotech and its diagnostic Actiphage have been recognised by the veterinary, dairy and farming industries with awards for innovation.
PBD Biotech Limited specialises in the use of novel phage-based technology for the detection of tuberculosis and related mycobacterial diseases in the fields of human and veterinary diagnostics.
The company has developed proprietary technology that can be used to detect the presence of mycobacteria such as: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Human TB), second only to Covid as a fatal infectious disease; Mycobacterium (bovine TB) and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP; Johne’s disease), which are both significant causes of loss of profitability in the agricultural industry.
The company was co-founded in 2018, by: Prof. Cath Rees, Professor in Microbiology at the University of Nottingham and Chief Scientific Officer at PBD Biotech; Dr Ben Swift, Research Fellow in Antimicrobial Resistance, Royal Veterinary College and Director of Research and Development at PBD Biotech; together with serial entrepreneur Dr Berwyn Clarke.
The registered office is at Ingenuity Centre,University of Nottingham, UK with the administrative centre in Thurston, Suffolk UK.
Actiphage is industry recognised:
- 2019 Royal Dairy Innovation Award, awarded by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF)
- Cream Award for Innovation 2020, organised by British Dairying to promote best practice and recognise some of the brightest and best businesses and people across the industry
- Vet Record Innovation Award 2021, where Actiphage was described by head judge, Professor the Lord Trees, as “having the potential to be a game-changer in tackling bTB”
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