Evozyne vs Pliant Therapeutics
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Evozyne applies generative AI and evolutionary principles to design novel therapeutic proteins; raised $144M total including $81M Series B led by Fidelity and OrbiMed with NVIDIA NVentures participation; 54 employees; Chicago-based.
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Evozyne is a Chicago-based biotechnology company founded in 2020 by Andrew Ferguson and Rama Ranganathan that uses generative AI to design novel, high-performance proteins for therapeutic and commercial applications. The company occupies a distinctive position at the frontier of AI-driven drug discovery: unlike companies that apply AI to screen existing molecule libraries or predict protein folding (like AlphaFold), Evozyne generates entirely new protein sequences from scratch using its proprietary understanding of evolutionary sequence-function relationships. These de novo proteins are designed with specific functional properties for therapeutic development or industrial applications.
Pliant Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech (Nasdaq: PLRX) developing integrin inhibitors for fibrotic diseases, with lead program bexotegrast in Phase 2b/3 trials for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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Pliant Therapeutics develops small molecule integrin inhibitors targeting the pathological tissue scarring (fibrosis) that drives diseases including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH/MASH). Integrins are cell surface receptors that activate TGF-β, the master regulator of fibrosis — blocking specific integrin subtypes (αvβ6, αvβ1) can halt or reverse fibrosis progression without broadly suppressing immunity.
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