The Medilink Midlands Business Awards are taking place on 15 May 2025 at Grand Station, Wolverhampton.
Celebrating the achievements of medtech and life sciences businesses, our awards showcase the strength of the industry, collaboration and innovation across the Midlands and neighbouring regions.
Applications are open for our 2025 season, and with two new categories expanding the programme, there has never been a better opportunity to apply.
Why apply?
Hear from the 2024 Business Awards winners
In our recently launched podcast series, we chat to the winning organisations from the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024, who share the reasons behind applying, and how the award win has supported their growth ambitions and increased visibility across the sector.
The Medilink Midlands Business Awards are open for applications for the 2025 season.
Each year, the awards recognise the most exceptional and innovative life sciences and medtech companies and industry collaborations.
The deadline to submit your application is on Monday 3 February.
2025 categories
This season, we have introduced two new categories celebrating the CSR champions and exceptional service providers across our industry.
Click on the tabs below to view the category descriptions and start an application.
The Innovation in Service Delivery Award recognises service providers in the Med-Tech and Life Science sectors that have demonstrated exceptional creativity and ingenuity in their approach to service delivery. This award is for companies or individuals that have developed additional benefits or added value for customers along with innovative solutions or processes that have significantly improved the quality, efficiency, or accessibility of their services.
For businesses which show a great deal of potential.
The recipient of this award is decided by the judges. There is no application form.
For any queries regarding applications, please contact [email protected].
 | Start-up Award
| Winner: MESOX
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 | Delivering Innovation in to Health and Care
| Winner: Cytecom
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 | Innovation
| Winner: Bioxhale
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 | Outstanding Achievement
| Winner: Upperton Pharma Solutions
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 | One to Watch – Judges’ Award
| Winner: Ademen
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 | Advances in Digital Healthcare
| Winner: Black Space Technology
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 | Export Achievement
| Winner: Cellomatics Biosciences
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 | Partnership Between Academia and Business
| Winner: Healthcare Technologies Institute (HTI), School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Birmingham (UoB) and Salts Healthcare
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 | Sustainability
| Winner: Pennine Healthcare
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Click here to watch the videos of all the winners from the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024.
Sponsor | Award | Bio |
|---|---|---|
 | Innovation in Service Delivery |
At Datalink Electronics, we are dedicated to advancing innovations that make a real difference in healthcare and life sciences. Supporting the Innovation in Service Delivery Award reflects our commitment to fostering solutions that drive both customer satisfaction and operational efficiency—key pillars in achieving excellence across the service industry.
Datalink is excited to partner with Medilink Midlands to honour and celebrate the pioneers who are redefining service delivery. By spotlighting these transformative achievements, we aim to inspire further advancements that benefit patients, healthcare providers, and the broader community. |
 | Sustainability Award |
Mills & Reeve has one of the largest specialist life sciences teams in the UK and can guide you to make the most of your ideas and products, offering all the legal advice you need. Our team operates both nationally and internationally can advise wherever you need, whether that is to protect your latest idea, deliver a strategic transaction or deal with complex compliance issues. Our deep sector knowledge and experience provide solutions and risk analysis to enable you to seize the opportunities open to you. |
Medilink Midlands offers sponsors a variety of options that meet their specific needs and budgets, whilst maximising the benefits of our network and events.
For our Business Awards, we invite organisations the opportunity to be part of our timeline right from the start of the entry process, all the way through to the event itself so we can guarantee as much exposure as possible for our valued sponsors.
“We’ve supported the awards for many years, and have been a Patron of Medilink Midlands for many years… We really enjoy seeing the whole plethora of different businesses. Within the Midlands, we have such diversity of business, ranging from data analytics through to medtech, biotech and pharma services. It’s a fascinating sector, and the Midlands plays a key role.”
James Fry, Partner and Head of Life Sciences at Mills & Reeve
“I’ve been a keen advocate of Medilink Midlands for the last few years, and it’s a privilege to sponsor one of the awards.”
Janet Worrell, Associate Director, Regulatory at JensonR+
“We’ve been Patrons of Medilink Midlands for over 12 years now, and been working with them for the full 20 years they’ve been in operation. It’s been fantastic to be part of their journey, and being part of the Medilink community by helping companies really succeed is an absolute pleasure.”
Sam Stephens, Director at TBAT Innovation
To be part of our awards through our sponsorship opportunities, email [email protected] to discuss packages.
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