Brief Description
Enable Biosciences is an early-stage biotech company creating the next generation of tools for predictive medicine, with diagnostics 10,000x more sensitive than previous methods, for earlier detection and treatment of diseases like HIV and type 1 diabetes.
The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry Carolyn Bertozzi, with Drs. Peter Robinson and Jason Tsai, who were PhD students in her lab. In 2022, Dr. Bertozzi shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for taking click chemistry, which allows molecules to snap together in a quick and efficient way, to a new dimension and utilising it in living organisms, with a technique called bioorthogonal chemistry.
Timeline
- 2015. Company founded
Inventors
Carolyn Bertozzi, Peter Robinson, Cheng ting Tsai