
Innovating Bioprocess for
Animal Therapeutics Production
We Develop
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Novel low COGS antibody expression systems
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Low COGS antibody purification technology
Standard Bioprocess Doesn't Meet Veterinary Economics
Animal health is adopting more advanced medicines. And increasingly, biology is not the barrier to getting these drugs to market; manufacturing costs are.
160 approved antibodies for human vs only 5 for animals — antibodies are a clear example where standard methods work, but the result is too expensive to reach veterinary potential.
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IgG — CHO works, but the COGS may not
Even with the right yields, CHO is slow, complex and costly to run, with capital expenditure that few can justify.

Complex VHH — Pichia hits a ceiling
Optimised for simple VHH, Pichia's yields fall away on the more complex formats, and the economics fall with them.
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Affinity purification — requires costly beads
Purification leans on agarose resins built for human pharma — the single biggest cost in the step.
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We mapped 1,200+ yeast species to solve the COGS problem
of antibody production.
Technology
Specific Problem
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Specific Novel Yeast Species
Upstream:
We start from the molecule, not the host.
Define what an antibody – or any other molecule – needs in order to be made well, then find the yeast species that already meets most of those needs naturally. Only then do we make genetic tools and modify them.
Less engineering, healthier host, better output.
Downstream:
A separately designed and patent-pending technology enables the low-COGS affinity purification.
Beyond
Antibodies
Our R&D collaborations roadmap includes:
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Vaccines, with built-in adjuvant function
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Small-molecule production through rare enzymatic routes such as P450
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Therapeutic proteins that P. pastoris or S. cerevisiae can't deliver
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