Investors

Following initial investment by the founders, Kirkstall won the Venturefest Investment competition in 2007 and then secured further seed funding from South Yorkshire Investment Fund (link).

These funds were successfully used to finance development work and Proof of Concept studies in Pisa and Sheffield.

In 2008 Kirkstall was awarded a GRD grant and secured further investment from the Viking Fund (link) and Angel Investors.

If you are interested in investment opportunities with Kirkstall Ltd please contact our CEO,  Dr Malcolm Wilkinson (link)

Partners

Kirkstall is sponsoring research at several leading Universities across Europe including Pisa, Montpellier and Sheffield:

Pisa- Tissue Engineering and Microfabbrication Team of the Interdepartmental Research Center E.Piaggio - “The MCB team”  (link)

Montpellier – INSERM, University of Montpellier (link)

Sheffield -   Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (link) and The Kroto Research Institute (link).

Kirkstall is also a partner in the EU Framework 7 project ‘InLiveTox’ that aims to create a new gold standard for the toxicity testing of nanoparticles.

Kirkstall is constantly searching for new technologies to add to our portfolio, so contact our Business Development Manager (link) to discuss how we might work together.