Welcome to Bio-Shape
Bio-Shape is a start-up company developed by academics from Manchester and Liverpool Universities to support biotechnology industries. Our purpose is to make cutting edge synthetic and analytical tools available for bioindustry needs. We have mass spectrometry based methods to analyse large and complex biomolecules with a focus on biopharmaceuticals requiring very low levels of sample material at short timescales. We develop novel biocatalysts at scale that are robust and offer a green alternative to chemical routes for industrial biotechnology and analytical applications.

Latest News from Bio-Shape
Bio-Shape to Present Company Profile at IBioIC Annual Conference 25-26/01/2018
Technical Director Professor Sabine Flitsch will present Bio-Shape’s company profile and latest research at the IBioIC Annual Conference 25-26/01/2018. Bio-Shape is a start-up company and has been in operation since 2016. It was founded by four academic... read moreBBC ONE: The One Show: Woman who can smell Parkinson’s 21/12/2017
Perdita Barran one of Bio-Shape’s Technical Directors appeared on last night’s BBC One Show to talk about her research into Parkinsons disease, which has just had a... read moreBBC NEWS ONLINE: Scientists sniff out Parkinson’s disease smell 18/12/2017
Professor Perdita Barran (Technical Director of Bio-Shape) is close to establishing what causes a smell associated with sufferers of Parkinson’s disease. she hopes it could lead to the first diagnostic test for the disease. The breakthrough came after Joy Milne... read moreProtein Structural Analysis by Mass Spectrometry
Supporting the discovery and production of small molecule and protein-based therapeutics
Investigation of ligand binding, conformational change, protein-protein interactions, aggregation, protein dynamics, binding stoichiometry, epitope mapping
Expertise in the analysis of intact monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and their derivatives
Enhanced Structural Analysis of Carbohydrates and Biomolecules
Carbohydrate sequencing
Separating isobaric ions indistinguishable by MS alone
Bio-Shape at The BioHub
Bio-Shape benefits from BioHub tenancy
Industry and Academia
Cutting edge synthetic and analytical tools
Research Grants
Intensively research active