Gene therapy company AviadoBio has signed for an additional 11,000 sq ft of space at 20 Water Street at Canary Wharf.
The company originally leased space at Kadans Science Partner’s London Innovation Centre at 20 Water Street in November last year and it has taken the additional lab and office space on level six of the building.
The London Innovation Centre, which was launched by Kadans in June 2023, comprises 40,000 sq ft of fully fitted, flexible or bespoke wet-labs, ranging in size from 250 sq ft to more than 2,000 sq ft.
Lisa Deschamps, CEO of AviadoBio, said: “Since moving into our state-of-the-art space at the London Innovation Centre we have been able to continue important work developing our programmes and pipeline, while being surrounded by others within the life science community. Having seen what Canary Wharf offers growing life sciences companies we felt it was the right time for us to consolidate our UK lab and office space into one central hub here in Canary Wharf.
“It provides everything we need to be able to continue working on projects that will transform the lives of patients living with neurodegenerative disorders and allows us room to grow as we expand our business.”
James Sheppard, head of international asset management at Kadans Science Partner, added: “Working in tandem with CWG, we have experienced real momentum through leasing success and welcomed new life science companies such as AviadoBio, IMU Biosciences, Plasmidsaurus, Lab Med Expert and Clustermarket to our London Innovation Centre. We’re now excited to continue providing start-up, early-stage and more mature companies much-needed space where they can grow with us at Canary Wharf.”
Shobi Khan, CEO of Canary Wharf Group, said: “It is testament to the high-quality facilities available at 20 Water Street and the supportive life science community we are fostering at Canary Wharf that companies, such as AviadoBio, want to increase their presence here.
“Four years ago, we launched Canary Wharf 3.0 to provide a greater variety of amenities, biodiversity and green space across the Wharf. It also set out our ambition to make the area home to Europe’s leading life sciences community. With AviadoBio expanding amongst a host of life sciences and healthcare organisations already based at Canary Wharf such as Genomics England, Barts Health NHS Trust and hVIVO, we are well on our way in achieving this.”
