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Your outsourced R&D partner, from concept to commercial product. Contract research, product development, scale-up, and field validation under one roof, on your terms.
Your R&D Engine, Without the Overhead
Building and maintaining internal R&D capability is expensive, slow, and risky, especially in bioscience, where the capital requirements for laboratories, pilot facilities, and field trial networks can stretch into the millions before a single product reaches the market. Phytosynth Bioscience offers a different path.
Our commercial R&D services provide industry partners with access to world-class scientific talent, fully equipped laboratories, pilot production facilities, and multi-site field trial networks, on a contract basis that converts fixed costs into variable costs and dramatically shortens time-to-market for new bioscience products.
Our Approach
We operate as a seamless extension of your team, co-designing research programmes, sharing data in real time, and aligning our milestones with your commercial objectives. Your IP stays yours. We are here to accelerate your pipeline, not compete with it.
Full-Spectrum Capability
Unlike niche CROs that handle only one stage of development, we offer end-to-end capability, molecular biology, chemistry, formulation, scale-up, field testing, and regulatory dossier compilation, eliminating the friction and delays of multi-vendor coordination.
Flexible Engagement Models
We work on a fee-for-service basis, through co-development partnerships with shared risk and reward, or via multi-year strategic alliances with dedicated capacity. The model fits your budget, your timeline, and your risk appetite, not ours.
Services Include
A complete translational R&D platform designed to take bioscience innovations from concept to commercial readiness, faster, cheaper, and with less risk than building it yourself.
Contract Research
Full-service contract R&D programmes, from experimental design through execution and reporting, on your timeline and your IP terms. We serve as your external research arm, delivering rigorous science without the overhead of building internal capability.
Product Development
End-to-end product development for bioscience innovations, biostimulants, biopesticides, diagnostic kits, and specialty biochemicals, from proof-of-concept through prototype optimisation to pilot-scale production.
Scale-Up & Pilot Production
Bridging the gap between bench and market. Our pilot facilities support fermentation scale-up (1–1000 L), downstream processing optimisation, formulation development, and stability testing, generating the data package you need for manufacturing partners.
Field Testing & Validation
Multi-site, multi-season field trials designed to generate the efficacy, safety, and agronomic performance data required for product registration, investor due diligence, and customer adoption, across diverse agro-ecological zones.
Analytical & Quality Services
Comprehensive analytical chemistry and microbiology services supporting product development and quality control, HPLC, GC-MS, LC-MS/MS, ICP-OES, microbial enumeration, and stability testing under ICH conditions.
Product Registration Support
Compilation of registration dossiers for biopesticides, biofertilisers, biostimulants, and diagnostic products, including chemistry and manufacturing data, toxicology and ecotoxicology summaries, efficacy summaries, and environmental fate assessments.
Co-Development Partnerships
Shared-risk, shared-reward collaboration models where we co-invest scientific resources alongside your team, aligning incentives and accelerating timelines for innovations with significant market potential.
Technology Transfer & Licensing
Structured technology transfer programmes that move innovations from our lab to your manufacturing site, with complete documentation, on-site training, and post-transfer support to ensure seamless adoption.
Who We Work With
We partner with organisations that have big ideas and need the R&D horsepower to bring them to life, from multinationals refreshing their pipelines to founders building their first product.
Agribusiness Companies
Established ag-input manufacturers and distributors seeking to expand product portfolios with next-generation biologicals, biostimulants, and sustainable crop protection solutions.
Startups & Spin-outs
Early-stage bioscience ventures needing R&D infrastructure, technical validation, and scale-up capability without the capital expenditure of building their own facilities.
Chemical Companies
Specialty chemical and industrial biotechnology firms transitioning into bio-based products who need fermentation, formulation, and field-testing capabilities to enter new markets.
Food & Beverage Companies
Food manufacturers developing functional ingredients, natural preservatives, or fermentation-derived products requiring analytical characterisation, stability testing, and regulatory compliance support.
International Development Partners
Donor-funded programmes and development organisations implementing agricultural innovation projects that require rigorous, independent product development and validation capabilities.
University Spin-outs
Academic founders commercialising lab-scale discoveries who need the translational R&D infrastructure, and the industry-experienced scientists, to bridge the valley of death between grant funding and commercial traction.
Deliverables
We do not deliver slide decks, we deliver data packages, prototype products, scale-up protocols, and regulatory dossiers ready for the next stage of commercialisation.
Research Reports & Data Packages
Complete, traceable experimental records, raw data, analysed results, statistical interpretations, and conclusions, formatted for regulatory submission, investor review, or publication in peer-reviewed journals.
Prototype Batches
Physical product samples, from gram-scale lab prototypes through kilogram-scale pilot batches, with certificates of analysis, stability data, and formulation documentation.
Technical Dossiers
Regulatory-ready documentation packages compiled according to the specific requirements of your target jurisdictions, OECD, EPA, EFSA, or African regional frameworks.
Scale-Up Protocols
Detailed process descriptions, critical quality attributes, control strategies, and technology transfer documents enabling seamless handover to contract manufacturing organisations or in-house production teams.
IP & Commercialisation Reports
Invention disclosures, patentability assessments, freedom-to-operate analyses, and commercialisation roadmaps, ensuring the products we develop together are protected and positioned for market success.
Let Us Be Your R&D Engine
Contact Phytosynth Bioscience Ltd to discuss your R&D needs, from a single experiment to a multi-year product development partnership.