Alloy Therapeutics, a biotechnology ecosystem company, has acquired deepCDR Biologics, a Basel-based developer of deep learning technology for antibody discovery and optimization. Alloy will expand the Basel deepCDR site as a permanent Alloy research facility and will hire additional computational scientists and developers as it grows with the Alloy network.
The deepCDR engine combines deep sequencing and deep learning methods with a proprietary mammalian display process to select from a wide range of antibodies and rapidly identify candidates with the highest possible affinity and developability profiles. The company is a spinoff of ETH Zurich and Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering and was founded by Sai Reddy, an Associate Professor of Systems and Synthetic Immunology at ETH Zurich and an expert in immunogenomics and machine learning-guided protein engineering.
“Uniting deepCDR and Alloy reflects our conviction in the power of network effects and scientific collaboration—together our companies’ capabilities are amplified to better serve the global scientific community in its pursuit of finding the best medicines for patients,” said Alloy Therapeutics CEO and Founder Errik Anderson. “Our network of partners will be able to work with deepCDR’s machine learning engine in a way that otherwise would have been cost prohibitive or inaccessible. The ongoing technology improvements will enhance the output of Alloy platforms and Alloy Discovery Services for the benefit of all of our drug discovery partners.”
DeepCDR’s technology will strengthen Alloy Discovery Services capabilities with patent-pending machine learning-powered antibody repertoire screening, in silico library screening, and mammalian display. DeepCDR thoughtfully integrates wet lab antibody screening and characterization with the computational tools to enable a powerful learning loop generating real world results. The deepCDR team will form Alloy’s new Basel, Switzerland operations and comprises expertise in antibody engineering and optimization, bioinformatics, and in silico library screening.
Alloy is a leader in bispecific antibody discovery and engineering services, headquartered in Boston. Alloy’s lead offering, the ATX-Gx platform, is a human therapeutic antibody discovery platform consisting of a growing suite of proprietary transgenic mice strains. Alloy was founded in 2017 and has raised close $100 million in venture capital.
(Press release / SK)
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