Developing laboratory kits and research services to study RNA biology
RNA and its processing are essential to living organisms. Yet methods for analysing RNA can be inadequate and accessible only to specialists, limiting the ability of researchers outside expert laboratories to investigate RNA biology.
Ascent RNA develops laboratory kits and contract research services for studying RNA biology. Its methods help researchers identify RNA-molecule targets and analyse RNA-binding proteins, with academic and industrial research teams as intended customers.
What stands out about Ascent RNA
Founder Chris Sibley is an Edinburgh research group leader with over a decade of research on RNA-binding proteins in neurological disease.
The Ascent RNA team participated in the Kainos and Pioneer Group accelerator programmes before its Bayes Centre profile was published.
Ascent RNA received support through the Bayes Centre Venture Builder Incubator's 2025 cohort.
Founder chairwoman Nicola Broughton previously founded an IP commercialisation company in April 2013.
Founder chairwoman Nicola Broughton holds a BA in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.
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