The Biocolor story
Biocolor’s story began in the early 1990's, with Dr Roy Elliott, an academic researcher at Queens University Belfast. Dr Elliott had an interest in collagens within connective tissue, but found himself becoming frustrated with existing, time-consuming, chemically hazardous methods of collagen measurement.
This became his motivation to develop a kit he himself would want to use. His goals was a user-friendly, quantitative collagen assay kit that could be performed within 1-hour.
Biocolor and the Sircol assay was born!
Over the years the Sircol assay has become a ‘go–to’ name for collagen measurement. The assay has been continually refined and updated, making it well suited to its current role as a 'go-to' tool for collagen analysis in the fast-growing field of bioengineering.
Dr Elliott’s original aims while developing Sircol were that it must be quantitative, but also as reliable and user-friendly as possible.
Quantitative, User-friendly, Reliable. We aim to make products we would be happy to use ourselves.
This has become Biocolor's guiding principle or ethos and informs the development of every of our products.
Over the years our ethos has found expression in the development of a wider range of ECM assays, as well as in the development of our cell-based assay for measurement of cellular apoptosis.
In 2018-19 Biocolor suffered a double loss as managing directors - Dr Roy Elliott and Mr Gary Elliott passed away. They left a legacy of innovative assay kits that have supported the research of many researchers and institutions around the world.
To ensure this legacy continues, the owners of Biocolor established a new management team, initially led by Dr David Steele (Managing Director) and Mr David Elliott (Director). Together they brought a combined expertise in industry-academia collaborations, international product development, and business growth. More recently, this team expanded to form a stable long-term leadership group.
Having outgrown our previous premises, we moved to a new 'home' in Belfast's 'Titanic Quarter' in summer 2024. Our new premises features modern R&D and production laboratories and gives us space to grow our team.
Our aim, as ever, is to develop innovative, user-friendly assays that will accelerate scientific progress, continuing the Biocolor story that started back in 1992!
