OXFORD NANOPORE TECHNOLOGIES PLC
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Executive summary
Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC is a well-established, publicly listed biotech group operating in a capital-intensive R&D sector. While the company demonstrates institutional stability through a nearly 20-year operating history and a broad, international board of directors, the absence of financial data prevents a standard quantitative credit assessment. Any credit facility requires a conditional mandate to review the group's consolidated accounts to verify cash runway, burn rate, and the capacity to service debt without relying on unpredictable capital markets funding.
Overview
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2005-03-09
- Registered office
- Gosling Building Edmund Halley Road, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX4 4DQ
- Postcode
- OX4 4DQ
- Capital
- 97 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-08
- Next due by
- 2027-03-22
Nature of business (SIC)
- 72190 Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
Officers 11 current · 20 resigned
Group structure 5 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 17
£3,004,098,713 total awarded value where published.
Showing the 5 most recent of 17.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z1293422 (Tier 3), registered since 2008.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
20.62%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · in the bottom quarter for parity
Contact details
- Website
- oxfordnanopore.com
- Phone
- 0123178529, 0175012951, 019119-4845
Discover a new generation of molecular sensing technology which offers short to ultra-long native DNA and RNA reads.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| OXFORD NANOPORE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | 2021-09-24 |
| OXFORD NANOLABS LIMITED | 2008-05-19 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| EDMUND CARTWRIGHT HOUSE 4 ROBERT ROBINSON AVENUE, OXFORD SCIENCE PARK, OXFORD, OX4 4GA | 2017-12-22 |
| BEGBROKE SCIENCE PARK, SANDY LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE, OX5 1PF | 2009-07-23 |
| 23 FIVE MILE DRIVE, OXFORD, OXFORDSHIRE, OX2 8HT | 2006-11-16 |
Among its peers
Among the oldest 25%
of 209 similar companies in OX, trading since 2005
The class of 2005
30%
of the 281 companies in this sector incorporated in 2005 are still active today; 67% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 8 titles
- Leasehold
- 8
- Most recent registration
- 2024-03-28
- Where
- Oxfordshire (8)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ON386975 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2024-03-28 | — |
| ON386451 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2024-02-26 | — |
| ON386452 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2024-02-26 | — |
| ON385702 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2024-01-16 | — |
| ON385055 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2023-12-11 | — |
| ON370676 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2022-01-31 | — |
| ON360683 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2020-11-17 | — |
| ON347953 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2019-03-15 | — |
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