Novacyt Group is an Anglo-French biotechnology group focused on clinical diagnostics, with offices in Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom and Vélizy-Villacoublay, France. The company produces in vitro and molecular diagnostic tests, supplying an extensive range assays and reagents worldwide.

Its business units include Primerdesign (a University of Southampton Medical School spin-off company founded in 2005 by Dr Jim Wicks, Dr Rob Powell and Professor Tom Brown), Microgen Bioproducts and Lab21 Healthcare.

In January 2020 the company announced that its molecular diagnostics division, Primerdesign, had launched a molecular test for the 2019 strain of SARSr-CoV.

The test was approved as eligible for procurement under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Emergency Use Listing process in April 2020, meaning that the test can be supplied by the United Nations and other procurement agencies supporting the COVID-19 response. In the same month Novacyt announced a collaboration with AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Cambridge to support the UK in its COVID-19 national screening programme at a new testing laboratory at the university’s Anne McLaren laboratory.

Type:                     Société Anonyme

Traded as:           LSE: NCYT; Euronext: ALNOV

Industry:              Biotechnology

Founded:            2006

Headquarters:   Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom

Products:             In vitro and molecular diagnostics

Subsidiaries:       Primerdesign

Website               www.novacyt.com