Genetic Design

Where therapies are
designed.

A synthetic biology research engine in South San Francisco. ML-driven sequence optimization, proprietary safety and targeting tools, and producer cell line engineering — all in service of getting your therapy to the clinic faster.

Engineered from first principles.

What it is

Our Genetic Design is where therapeutic candidates are conceived, optimized, and de-risked before they ever hit a bioreactor. We combine synthetic biology expertise, bioinformatics, and proprietary building blocks into a design environment built for the clinic.

Tools we use

Genetic design

Vector engineering.

Gene-of-interest, promoter, regulatory element, and payload architecture optimized across CAR/TCR-T, NK, Treg, and in-vivo gene therapy modalities.

High-throughput screening

Construct screening.

Parallel evaluation of construct variants in primary and therapeutically relevant cell types — narrowing thousands of candidates to the few worth bringing into the clinic.

Bioinformatics & AI

Computational biology.

Bioinformatics analysis, protein and promoter library design, and AI-based protein design — sharpening which constructs make it into wet-lab screens.

The end in mind

Deliverables

Precision expression

Cell-specific promoters.

Promoters designed for in-vivo cell therapy programs — driving expression in the target cell population, silent everywhere else.

Drug regulation

Drug-induced switches.

Gene-expression switches optimized by directed evolution to respond to therapeutically relevant concentrations of FDA-approved small molecules with excellent pharmacological properties — giving clinicians dosable control of the engineered cell.

Safety architectures

Kill switches.

Selective elimination of engineered cells when needed — our system is optimized for rapid cell death, giving programs a robust safety lever that engages quickly when it's called for.

More capabilities.

The full set of capabilities that make up our integrated CDMO platform.