SOLVING TODAY’S HARDEST CHALLENGES THROUGH INTELLIGENT PROTEIN DESIGN
It’s no secret that the future of more sustainable products is already being driven by cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking innovation. Among the leaders defining this future is Seattle-based industry-leading Protein Design Company, Arzeda.
Recognizing the vast potential and opportunity to transform the way products are made, co-founders Alexandre Zanghellini, PhD, Eric Althoff, PhD, Daniela Grabs, PhD, and David Baker, PhD, from the University of Washington’s Institute of Protein Design, founded Arzeda in 2009 to do just that.
Today, Arzeda, in partnership with industry-leading companies, is solving some of the world’s most pressing consumer and commercial sustainability challenges. The company has developed a proprietary protein design platform that harnesses physics-based computational
protein design, AI, and lab automation to expand the reach of biotechnology by creating entirely new designer proteins and enzymes
more efficiently and with less risk.
Arzeda’s team of scientists and engineers tackles each challenge differently, using the company’s computational methods, high-throughput testing pipeline, and deep insights – to relentlessly innovate new proteins and enzymes that enable companies across a wide array of industries to reach their goals.
At the heart of Arzeda’s approach is the belief that hard problems can’t be solved with a single-minded approach or by replicating
what currently exists.
The impact of Arzeda’s technology and innovation reaches across a diverse range of industries. Arzeda has partnered with some of the
world’s biggest and most forward-thinking companies to create solutions that help address real problems and meet their business goals.
The company’s recent, multi-year alliance with Unilever serves as a prime example of the impact and reach of this technology.
As part of its Clean Future strategy, Unilever has committed to eliminating virgin fossil fuels as a feedstock for the chemicals in its
cleaning and laundry product formulations. Enzymes, which are low-carbon, naturally derived, and deliver added performance benefits, will be critical in helping Unilever realize its Clean Future ambition.
Under the partnership, Arzeda is optimizing enzymes to replace ingredients with a high environmental footprint—commonly found in most cleaning and laundry products. The discovery and optimization of new enzymes in formulations could result in up to 50% fewer ingredients required, while delivering superior cleaning benefits to the consumer.
As well as delivering new benefits for the cleaning and laundry sector, this partnership will encourage knowledge sharing of previously undiscovered uses for enzymes that could solve wider consumer, industrial, and environmental challenges across multiple sectors.
The Unilever partnership is just one example of how Arzeda is using AI to transform what is possible. The technology platform is solving a wide array of broad consumer, industrial, and environmental challenges across multiple sectors.
The potential is virtually limitless. To date, Arzeda has led innovation across food, personal, and homecare products, and the technology also has applications within agriculture, sustainable chemicals and materials, pharmaceuticals, and diagnostics.
To learn more about the work Arzeda is doing and the applications of the company’s technology, visit: http://www.arzeda.com/
