Prellis Biologics
Therapeutic drug development company, created via bioprinted lymph node organoids
* Data source: Crunchbase
- Founded
- 2016.0
- Employees*
- 11-50
- Funding to Date*
- $29.9M
- Website
- prellisbio.com
Melanie Matheu, PhD, CEO & Founder
A surgeon identified a singular problem standing between scientists and physicians and a truly living engineered organ. Once I heard it, it seemed simple; develop microvasculature. I couldn’t shake the idea that all we had to do was find a way to create microvasculature quickly and we could save millions of lives.
Of the top 10 drug sales, 8 of them are antibodies, but therapeutic antibody discovery is slow and expensive
Prellis is leveraging their unique approach to tissue engineering to support the first use of synthetic human tissue for de novo therapeutic antibody discovery. The company’s platform allows for 3-5x more rapid development of highly specific antibodies with high affinity, generating dozens of diverse candidates for each target, at a cost to the company of an order of magnitude cheaper than prior methods.
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