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Evolvere BioSciences

Summer 2024 · Active

Making Next-Generation Antibiotics that Outpace Bacterial Evolution

Location: Oxford, United Kingdom, GB

Founded: 2021

Team size: 3

About

🦠🤖 We use our computational models to make next-generation antibiotics that outcompete bacterial evolution and precisely target pathogenic bacteria, without harming good microbes or human cells. ☠️ Current antibiotics stop working because bacteria evolve resistance to them. This makes drug-resistant bacteria a looming global health crisis - already killing more people than malaria and AIDS and it is getting exponentially worse 📈. 🧬 Our approach leverages co-evolutionary protein-protein interaction datasets combined with AI to forecast bacterial mutations and create ‘future-proof’ antibiotics, addressing antibiotic resistance before it develops. This changes the game for how frequently society will need to make new antibiotics and how long our new antibiotics will be able to treat patients 👩‍⚕️. We are a team of biochemists and evolutionary biologists who met at the University of Oxford.

Founders

  • Adam WinnifrithFounder

    Evolvere (S24), CEO & Co-Founder, MBioChem Oxford, I work at the intersection of bioengineering, protein AI, and automation. E.S.B

  • Piotr JedryszekFounder

    S24, Evolvere Biosciences, CTO and Co-founder, background in Bio and CompBio

  • Weronika SlesakFounder

    CSO at Evolvere (S24). Oxford biologist using evolution as an engineering tool.