Exclusive: Harvard startup raises $26M, strikes three pharma partnerships for AI antibody design

Nabla Bio, a small start­up found­ed by sci­en­tists from ge­neti­cist George Church’s lab at Har­vard Med­ical School, has formed drug dis­cov­ery col­lab­o­ra­tions with As­traZeneca, Bris­tol My­ers Squibb and Take­da, the com­pa­ny told End­points News in an ex­clu­sive in­ter­view.

The start­up is based on large lan­guage mod­els de­vel­oped in Church’s lab that pre­dict pro­tein struc­tures. Nabla and its part­ners are build­ing up­on that AI re­search to de­sign an­ti­bod­ies against pro­teins that have proven frus­trat­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to drug with tra­di­tion­al meth­ods.

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