Deep-BioTech

Our vision and commitment:

Leverage interdisciplinary science and engineering, computational biology and deep-learning to produce outcomes that fight disease and cultivate well-being.

Ultimately contribute towards improving the quality of life.

Deep-Biotech: an umbrella that hosts our mission tracks

Explore new territories. R&D towards new applied research. Develop new products and outcomes to provide services to industries and end users. 

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Bio-Explore

[Track-1]

Explore and develop new interdisciplinary R&D concepts, tied to applied use cases, covering market needs and gaps. Build new partnerships, consortiums, novel MVPs, products and services via Tracks 2, 3. Exploit outcomes in business development opportunities.

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R&D, Products

[Track-2]

Basic and applied research development towards novel MVPs/PoC, products within state-of-the art science and technology in computational biology and deep-learning.

Outcomes: "DeNViS", Deep Neural Virtual Screening for drug discovery.

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Services, R&D Consulting

[Track-3]

Develop and deliver software engineering, production-level outcomes, publications, customised studies, tailor built solutions and consulting services to pharmaceutical, biotech-like industries.

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Pipeline: Explore, R&D, Business Exploitation

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How and Why

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How

Apply advanced deep-learning approaches at the intersection of computational biology, bio/chemo-informatics. Design and build end-to-end pipelines to develop usable services and products. 

 

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Impact

Have core health impact with applications e.g. in drug discovery and repurposing, single-cell multi-omics; aim to contribute in therapeutics, diagnostics; offer clinical insights in disease and wellness. 

Timeline and News

  • Mar 1, 2020

    First concept

    High-level motivation and brainstorming led to the initial drug discovery concept; after research we decided to focus on high-throughput virtual screening via structure-based protein-ligand affinity prediction.

  • May 1, 2020

    R&D Self-funded Project

    Form ML-Team; +new bio-engineer hiring; ongoing R&D work; production-level engineering scale up. 

  • Jul 20, 2020

    JEDI Grand Challenge submission

    Successful fast screening of 1B molecules; submission of ranked compounds to the JEDI Grand challenge international effort against covid-19 related proteins.

  • Oct 1, 2020

    R&D, Networking

    • Virtual screening R&D cont'd
    • Initiate single cell multi-omics tracks
    • Develop research project proposals and networking with pharma/biotech companies.
  • Jan 5, 2021

    Bio-Explore

    • Bio-Explore concept and framework formation [Dec., 2021].
    • New bioinformaticians/bio-explore team [Jan., 2021].
    • Project kick-off [Feb., 2021].
  • Mar 1, 2021

    Positive Outcomes, +Business

    • JEDI positive feedback: deeplab is within 20-top finalists; molecules are to be screened in wet lab.
    • New strategic health market and business lead position.
  • May 1, 2021

    Upcoming potential

    • Submit Virtual screening product (DeNViS) business proposals on open funding calls (EIT, Bio-Tools) [May, 2021].
    • Technical report on Virtual Screening manuscript ready for publication.
    • Single-cell multi-omics 2nd cycle proposals with pharma industry [May, 2021].
    • Website goes live [Jun., 2021].

Express your interest

Open call for:

Partnerships. Experts. Customers. Investors.