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 is currently based in Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland.
In June 2023, Hooke Bio was awarded €5.7M in Horizon Europe EIC Accelerator funding. 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. 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
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 received further support from Angel investors (Boole Investment Syndicate and Irrus Investments) and the Western Development Commission investment fund in 2018. In conjunction with the DTIF award received in 2019, Hooke Bio set up its premises in Shannon, Co. Clare.
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FACILITIES
The Bio Lab
The biology laboratory facilitates the development and maintenance of 2D and 3D cell culture used to biologically validate the microfluidic technologies.
The Bio lab also has a class II cell culture facilities along with an Olympus IX70 fluorescent microscope and Tecan’s Infinite F Nano+ microplate reader for undertaking biological assays and live cell analysis.
The Engineering Lab
The Engineering laboratory includes the following: prototyping facilities, including a 3D printer, Electronics workstation & machine shop, Optical analysis instrumentation.
Additionally, the engineering machine shop has a state of the art 5-axis CNC machine, for high precision machining.
