About Us

BioBridge® was founded in 1989 in Cambridge UK by Meredith Lloyd-Evans, Managing Director. The current project team consists of Meredith, Sophie Williams as Project Officer and Dr Lydia Lee as Specialist-China.    Meredith is a veterinary surgeon who has worked in practice and in the pharmaceutical industry. His almost 50 years’ experience of bioscience-based business also includes IP portfolio management for British Technology Group and strategic consultancy for PA Technology.  Captain of University Challenge’s winning team in 1970, Churchill College Cambridge, Meredith still relishes his brain being challenged and finding the winning answers – whatever the technology, market sector or subject matter.

BioBridge History

For all our sectors of interest, we have created business to business linkages and helped put young, growing and established companies in touch with potential investors and strategic corporate partners. We continually explored and pioneered consultancy services in exciting new areas that have expanded the possibilities of bioscience-based businesses – Blue Growth (the sustainable use of marine bioresources) and Insects as Food and Feed are two examples where BioBridge has helped move innovations forward. In Blue Growth, we have worked for the European Commission and EUMOFA, the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture, and published on blue biotechnology as part of EU Reviews of biotechnology. Meredith provided horizon-scanning services for companies whose medical biomaterials come from animal sources, reviewing disease dynamics in the starting species and advising on emerging diseases and their impacts on operator and patient safety. BioBridge Ltd was selected by HealthforAnimals (http://healthforanimals.org/), the international organisation representing the animal health and veterinary medicines industry, to manage its Global Benchmarking Surveys in 2011 & 2015 and a supplementary contribution in 2020,  These were overviews and analyses of the state of innovation, the quality of interactions between the industry and the regulators, and prospects for innovation and regulatory change. Meredith has provided his reviewing expertise to public agencies in UK, the EU, Scandinavia and Canada, to ensure that their funded projects in innovation maintain high standards and are value-for-money.  He has been regarded as expert in many application areas where innovation is active, including bioprocessing, food technology for improved health, genomics, green chemistry, industrial biotechnology, marine bioresource developments and resource valorisation. With a strong focus on biobased industries and biomass utilisation, he has advised young companies in insect production, biopolymers from domestic wastes, biochar, and energy from agricultural wastes. As part of his horizon-scanning activities, Meredith was a member of the European Food Safety Agency’s Stakeholder Advisory Group on Emerging Risks, covering issues for human and animal health and food.