Tag: Baker lab

  • Nanopore designers receive first commercialization grant

    Nanopore designers receive first commercialization grant

    With support from the Washington Research Foundation, this project aims to create custom protein nanopores that can be integrated into semiconductor devices, unlocking the first direct interface between biology and electronics for multi-omics applications​​.

  • Designs on New World of Mini-Protein Therapeutics

    Designs on New World of Mini-Protein Therapeutics

    Mark your calendars!  September 27, 2017 is the day the doors opened to whole new world of targeted therapeutics.  The Baker lab and numerous talented collaborators published in Nature that it is now possible to conduct “Massively parallel de novo protein design for targeted therapeutics”.  Three factors make this possible: Rosetta molecular modeling algorithms for computational protein…

  • Arzeda Raises $12M for Computational Protein Design

    Today, Baker lab spin out company Arzeda announced that it had raised $12 million in a Series A round of funding led by OS Fund and including Bioeconomy Capital and Sustainable Conversion Ventures, as well as a follow-on investment from Arzeda’s seed investor, WRF Capital (a major supporter of the IPD).  The new funding will enable “Technology…