Anthrogen Partners with Stanford’s Fordyce Lab to Accelerate Next-Generation Enzyme Discovery
Anthrogen Partners with Stanford’s Fordyce Lab to Accelerate Next-Generation Enzyme Discovery
We are thrilled to announce a new academic collaboration between Anthrogen and the Fordyce Lab at Stanford University, a leading research group exploring innovative approaches in protein and enzyme engineering using microfluidics. This partnership represents an exciting step toward our mission of building a more efficient and cost-effective platform for discovering and optimizing enzymes.
We are thrilled to announce a new academic collaboration between Anthrogen and the Fordyce Lab at Stanford University, a leading research group exploring innovative approaches in protein and enzyme engineering using microfluidics. This partnership represents an exciting step toward our mission of building a more efficient and cost-effective platform for discovering and optimizing enzymes.
January 27, 2025
We are thrilled to announce a new academic collaboration between Anthrogen and the Fordyce Lab at Stanford University, a leading research group exploring innovative approaches in protein and enzyme engineering using microfluidics. This partnership represents aforn exciting step toward our mission of building a more efficient and cost-effective platform for discovering and optimizing enzymes.
Why This Matters:
Enzymes are crucial to nearly every facet of biomanufacturing—from creating sustainable materials to enabling breakthroughs in pharmaceuticals. Yet characterizing enzyme activity (i.e., measuring “kinetics”) remains an expensive, time-consuming challenge. Under this new collaboration, we aim to streamline that process through a combination of cutting-edge robotics, microfluidics, and AI, with the goal of generating high-quality enzyme data at a fraction of the usual cost. Reducing the time and expense of enzyme discovery will not only benefit protein engineering research but also open the door to new, sustainable industrial applications.
What We’re Building:
Working closely with the Fordyce Lab, we will refine a high-throughput, automated method for screening and characterizing novel enzymes. While much of the technical detail remains proprietary (and is part of ongoing IP development), the essence of our work involves:
Leveraging microfluidics to miniaturize and speed up how we measure enzyme activity.
Integrating advanced robotics to reduce manual intervention and increase reproducibility.
Harnessing AI-driven software to guide experiments and analyze kinetic data, providing insights that help us design more effective proteins in fewer steps.
A Springboard for Next-Generation Protein Models:
A critical outcome of this partnership will be the creation of rich, high-fidelity datasets that fuel the next generation of protein language models. By combining large-scale experimental data with cutting-edge AI, we believe we can substantially accelerate the design of enzymes with novel or enhanced functions, laying the groundwork for transformative applications in synthetic biology and beyond while also establishing a competitive advantage over other companies in the field.
The Road Ahead:
Over the coming months, we’ll be working hand-in-hand with the Fordyce Lab to refine our platform, validate our methods on test enzymes, and move toward fully automated, AI-guided protein engineering. We look forward to sharing key milestones and insights from this collaboration with the broader biomanufacturing community, including updates on how our technology is driving down costs and expanding the horizons of enzyme discovery.
Stay tuned for more details on our progress. We can’t wait to see how this collaboration propels Anthrogen—and the field of enzyme engineering—into the next era of scientific discovery and innovation!
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Anthrogen Partners with Stanford’s Fordyce Lab to Accelerate Next-Generation Enzyme Discovery
We are thrilled to announce a new academic collaboration between Anthrogen and the Fordyce Lab at Stanford University, a leading research group exploring innovative approaches in protein and enzyme engineering using microfluidics. This partnership represents an exciting step toward our mission of building a more efficient and cost-effective platform for discovering and optimizing enzymes.
January 27, 2025
We are thrilled to announce a new academic collaboration between Anthrogen and the Fordyce Lab at Stanford University, a leading research group exploring innovative approaches in protein and enzyme engineering using microfluidics. This partnership represents aforn exciting step toward our mission of building a more efficient and cost-effective platform for discovering and optimizing enzymes.
Why This Matters:
Enzymes are crucial to nearly every facet of biomanufacturing—from creating sustainable materials to enabling breakthroughs in pharmaceuticals. Yet characterizing enzyme activity (i.e., measuring “kinetics”) remains an expensive, time-consuming challenge. Under this new collaboration, we aim to streamline that process through a combination of cutting-edge robotics, microfluidics, and AI, with the goal of generating high-quality enzyme data at a fraction of the usual cost. Reducing the time and expense of enzyme discovery will not only benefit protein engineering research but also open the door to new, sustainable industrial applications.
What We’re Building:
Working closely with the Fordyce Lab, we will refine a high-throughput, automated method for screening and characterizing novel enzymes. While much of the technical detail remains proprietary (and is part of ongoing IP development), the essence of our work involves:
Leveraging microfluidics to miniaturize and speed up how we measure enzyme activity.
Integrating advanced robotics to reduce manual intervention and increase reproducibility.
Harnessing AI-driven software to guide experiments and analyze kinetic data, providing insights that help us design more effective proteins in fewer steps.
A Springboard for Next-Generation Protein Models:
A critical outcome of this partnership will be the creation of rich, high-fidelity datasets that fuel the next generation of protein language models. By combining large-scale experimental data with cutting-edge AI, we believe we can substantially accelerate the design of enzymes with novel or enhanced functions, laying the groundwork for transformative applications in synthetic biology and beyond while also establishing a competitive advantage over other companies in the field.
The Road Ahead:
Over the coming months, we’ll be working hand-in-hand with the Fordyce Lab to refine our platform, validate our methods on test enzymes, and move toward fully automated, AI-guided protein engineering. We look forward to sharing key milestones and insights from this collaboration with the broader biomanufacturing community, including updates on how our technology is driving down costs and expanding the horizons of enzyme discovery.
Stay tuned for more details on our progress. We can’t wait to see how this collaboration propels Anthrogen—and the field of enzyme engineering—into the next era of scientific discovery and innovation!