Articles from BigHat Biosciences

BigHat Biosciences, an AI-driven platform and therapeutics company, announced today the appointment of Stefan Weigand, PhD, as Chief Scientific Officer. Stefan joins from Roche, where he was Head of Large Molecule Research, overseeing a global team of approximately 350 scientists and the company's biologics, conjugates, and gene therapy pipeline from discovery through Phase I. Weigand's appointment comes as BigHat advances its AI-integrated drug design platform across multiple therapeutic programs. The company's closed-loop approach combines generative protein design with high-throughput experimental cycles, using Bayesian optimization to tune biologics across many competing design parameters at once.

BigHat Biosciences, a protein therapeutics company that combines state-of-the-art AI models with a high-speed automated wet lab, today announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) focused on advancing machine-learning-enabled biologics discovery through Lilly TuneLab. This project expands BigHat’s relationship with Lilly, which includes a previously disclosed collaboration focused on the discovery and engineering of next-generation antibody therapeutics.

BigHat Biosciences (“BigHat”), a biotechnology company with a machine learning (ML)-guided antibody discovery and development platform, announced a strategic collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”). In this collaboration, BigHat will deploy its Milliner platform, a suite of state-of-the-art ML technologies integrated with a synthetic biology-based high-speed wet lab, to design and engineer therapeutic antibodies with superior functionality.

BigHat Biosciences, a biotechnology company with an artificial intelligence/machine learning-guided antibody discovery and development platform announced a collaboration with Janssen Biotech Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. This strategic collaboration combines the drug discovery, clinical development and data science expertise from Johnson & Johnson with BigHat’s Milliner™ platform, a suite of machine learning technologies integrated with a high-speed wet lab, to guide the design and selection for high-quality antibodies for multiple Neuroscience therapeutic targets. The agreement was facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation.

BigHat Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing safer, more effective antibody therapies for patients using machine learning and synthetic biology, today announced it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round, led by Section 32, with participation from new investors Amgen Ventures, Bristol Myers Squibb, Quadrille Capital, Gaingels, GRIDS Capital, among others. The investment brings BigHat’s total funding to date to $100 million. Prior investors Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, and AME Cloud Ventures also contributed to this round, which will be used to scale the capacity of MillinerTM, an integrated AI/ML- wet lab platform, advance therapeutic programs toward human clinical trials, aggressively hire drug discovery and development talent and to accelerate strategic collaborations with flagship partners.

BigHat Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company developing safer, more effective next-generation antibody therapies for patients using machine learning and synthetic biology, today announced the acquisition of Frugi Biotechnology, a biotechnology company developing cost-effective and high-quality cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) technology. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.