Touchlight expands world leading DNA technology into bespoke laboratories in Hampton

Touchlight moves into custom-designed laboratories within the restored Hampton Water Works situated on the River Thames.

Touchlight’s operations are expanding in order to support numerous commercial product collaborations with large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies around the world.

This grade-two listed facility was formed in 1852 by Joseph Quick in response to the London Cholera epidemics, and was a part of some of the greatest life-saving innovation of the era. Operating until 1950, the buildings were left largely untouched until they were purchased in 2012 by Mr Andrew Black, Co-Founder of Betfair.

Andrew’s vision is to utilise the 4,000 square meters of dramatic Victorian architecture to create a new scientific community. “Science, and biotech as a daughter, is often forgotten as one of the great creative industries. Most other creative industries put great onus on a conducive working environment, but less so in Biotech where laboratories are often subterranean and utilitarian. I wanted to create a light and inspiring atmosphere, one to support great science, like the work going on at Touchlight.”

The first phase of Touchlight’s laboratory expansion is now complete, with the second phase to be completed in November. The expansion means that Touchlight is now ideally placed to enable a revolution in medicine with its cutting-edge DNA technology.

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Read more about the Morelands and Riverdale buildings in Hampton here.

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About Touchlight

Touchlight is a privately-owned CDMO based in London, U.K., focused on the provision of DNA services and manufacture of enzymatically produced doggybone DNA (dbDNA™) to enable the development of genetic medicines. Touchlight provide rapid, enzymatic DNA development and manufacturing for all advanced therapy production, including mRNA, viral and non-viral gene therapy and DNA API. dbDNA is a minimal, linear, covalently closed structure, which eliminates bacterial sequences. Touchlight’s revolutionary enzymatic production platform enables unprecedented speed, scale, and the ability to target genes with a size and complexity that is impossible with current technologies. Clients can be supported from pre-clinical through development and supply, to licencing and tech transfer for use in-house.

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