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13.04.2021 | Published by Forbes

Meet the company reprogramming the future of synthetic biology

ӣƵ Co-founder and CFO Florian Schuster, investor and Lyell founder, Rick Klausner, and ӣƵ founder and CEO Mark Kotter

John Cumbers, founder and CEO of SynBioBeta, published a piece in Forbes after a conversation with Dr Rick Klausner – ӣƵ investor, founder and Executive Chairman of Lyell Immunopharma – and Dr Mark Kotter, ӣƵ founder and CEO.

The piece covers how Rick and Mark first met and how ӣƵ is reimagining what is possible with the engineering of mammalian cells – industrial-scale cell manufacturing and bringing sustainable cell-culture meats to consumers via Meatable.

“ Mark showed up at Lyell and started showing me his beautiful data. I walked out and told my assistant to cancel the morning. It only took four hours for us to decide to write him a check.”

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Dr Rick KlausnerrӣƵ investor, founder and Executive Chairman of Lyell Immunopharma

“ By converting current cell therapies, which at the moment cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, to a model of biologics or perhaps even a small molecule in the future, cell therapies could become common and widespread.”

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Mark KotterCo-founder and CEO, ӣƵ

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