Lab Space for Rent in Oxford

Size

350–14,700 sq ft

Price

All-inclusive monthly pricing advertised, but no rates published — quotes on enquiry

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Available

Co-Labs by journey is a 14,700 sq ft early-stage life science incubator on the NIAB site off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge, created by flexible workspace platform Journey in partnership with lab operator Co-Laboratories. It spans three buildings (Defra, Old Granary and Bingham) and scales from a single hot bench to private labs of 2–30 benches with attached write-up space, backed by shared tissue culture and equipment rooms. Founders get move-in-ready fitted labs on unusually short terms for Cambridge, plus on-site advisors, a Barclays Eagle Labs virtual membership and an events/networking programme — with a clear upgrade path into Journey's larger Cambridge labs (First-Step, The Fitzroy, Journey Campus).

Size

175–36,000 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

The Oxford Science Park is a 100+ company life science and technology campus owned by Magdalen College Oxford in partnership with Singapore's GIC, sitting on the south side of Oxford and home to occupiers ranging from Oxford Nanopore and Novo Nordisk to early-stage spinouts. Unusually for a UK science park it spans the whole growth curve: the Hayakawa Building and Magdalen Centre offer incubation-scale lab and office suites from roughly 175 sq ft with shared lab facilities and onsite management, while Northbrook House and the 450,000 sq ft Daubeny Project deliver fitted CL2 wet lab and write-up floorplates up to 23,000+ sq ft for companies scaling out of incubation. Pricing is not published — space is let on conventional leases via the Park's enquiry team and agents Cushman & Wakefield and DTRE.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

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Availability

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AgileLab is a shared wet chemistry co-working lab established in 2019 by the University of Oxford and ERDF, sited within Begbroke Science Park — the only science park wholly owned and managed by Oxford. Tenants get a dedicated ~1.8m bench plus a desk and locker in an open-plan office, backed by an on-site lab technician, shared fume cupboards and instrumentation, and flexible low-cost terms designed for pre-startup researchers and newly formed SMEs. Its standout advantage is on-site access to Oxford's Materials Characterisation Service, Nano Fabrication Cleanroom and Prototyping Lab, plus innovation grant funding and Royal Society Entrepreneur-in-Residence business support.

Size

160–1,475 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

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The BioEscalator is the University of Oxford's biomedical incubator, sitting inside the Innovation Building on the Old Road Campus alongside the University's clinical research institutes. It offers two tiers of space: bench space in a staffed shared Innovation Laboratory rentable by the day, week or month, and private Company Laboratories from 15 m² to 137 m² let monthly with integral write-up space or separate offices. Roughly half of its ~15 resident companies are Oxford spin-outs, and tenants get core lab services (glasswash, autoclave), specialist platforms such as flow cytometry, mass spectrometry and protein production, plus high-performance computing access.