ABOUT HOOKE BIO
Unlocking the power of research
Hooke Bio Ltd. was founded in 2014 by Professor Mark Davies at Stokes Laboratories, University of Limerick (UL), a research center which has a rich history of microfluidic entrepreneurship. Hooke Bio spun out from UL in 2017 and its state-of-the-art facility is based in Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Hooke Bio won Enterprise Ireland’s ‘One-to-Watch Award’ Big Idea’s Showcase in 2017 and was the gold winner at the National Start-up MedTech Awards in 2018.
FINALIST
2017 Best innovation award
MEDTECH
GOLD WINNER
National Start Up Awards
Tionscadal Eireann Project Ireland
2040
Did you know?
The company is named after Robert Hooke
(scientist, astronomer, engineer and architect).
He was the first person to image a microorganism using a microscope and coined the term “cell”.
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Investment
To date, Hooke Bio have been awarded up to 12M in investment from a combination of private, angel and public funds. A portion of this has come from the prestigious European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator funding of which Hooke was awarded 5.7M in 2023. Most recently in Dec 2024, Hooke were successful in their second DTIF (Call 7) with Relevium Medical and the University of Galway on the RestOAre project worth €4.6M.
Hooke Bio previously won €1.9M in 2019 in the first round of funding through the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Process Analysis (CAPPA) and NUI, Galway.
Prior to 2017, Hooke Bio was funded by two Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation funds. Private investment along with support from EI’s High Potential Start-Up fund allowed the company to spin out from the University of Limerick in 2017.
The company consistently receives support from their investors (Boole Investment Syndicate and Irrus Investments) and the Western Development Commission.
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FACILITIES
The Bio Lab
Our biology laboratory supports the development and maintenance of both 2D and 3D cell cultures, enabling robust biological validation of cutting-edge microfluidic technologies.
Our Bio Lab is a state-of-the-art Class II cell culture facility, specializing in advanced 3D tissue models across multiple domains—including cardiac, neuronal, liver, and cancer systems.
The Engineering Lab
Our Engineering Laboratory is equipped with comprehensive prototyping capabilities—including 3D printing, a fully equipped electronics workstation, precision machine shop tools, and advanced optical analysis instrumentation—empowering innovation from concept to validation.
Additionally, the engineering machine shop has a state of the art 5-axis CNC machine, for high precision machining.
