Van Heron Labs

Rocket fuel for the bio-economy.

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

An introduction to precision feeding for cell-based applications and bio-processes:

https://t.co/9anoYWrIpu

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Read the full press release at:

⚡Startbase: https://t.co/ILEvwWCCqh

💫 BNN Breaking: https://t.co/QxE1T9E4zQ

💥 Silicon Canals: https://t.co/XwaPpecMhe

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Bootstrapped > Venture backed!

Proud to announce our seed round led by @food_labs!
With these funds, we're supercharging our platform + capabilities + new tech. Some exciting news yet to come.

We'll be raising additional funds in 2024 to expand these efforts and our team 🚀🧬🧪

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Go hang with our CEO and Houston and chat about our new results showing the platform's efficacy for cell therapy manufacturing!

[Rebecca Vaught, Ph.D. @rcvaught]

Honored to be named a Top Early Career Professional and our work to be named a Top Abstract .@ISCTglobal

Join me to discuss the future of cell therapy tomorrow (details attached), I’ll be presenting data showing .@vanheronlabs tech can achieve greater T cell expansion + fitness

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

WE'RE HIRING!!

Please help us find a Senior Scientist to lead our projects and become the 10X multiplier for our science!

See the job description linked below for more details.

Who should we be talking to? Know the perfect person? @ them below!

https://t.co/1Y1gZHebNG

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Someone recently called us "bio-revolution posers."

But over the past weeks, we've shattered the theoretical limits of cell division in E. coli.

If that's not the bio-revolution, then what is?

🤘🚀🔬

P.S. [email protected] if you'd like to beta test our new additive.

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Our main FAQs are around the steps needed for custom culture media or feed dev. Here they are:

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

"FerMEntAtioNs aRE alrEady OptiMizED" 🤡

Not even close. We can 20X growth w/ a single additive. Aka, reduce a growth curve to 1 hour vs. 8-16

If you'd like to see the data and beta-test our universal, economical, scalable shake flask/reactor additive:

[email protected]

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Feels great to be named a Top 100 company in Alabama by [e-mail]!

https://t.co/HbEa6XVk6g

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Optimized metabolism = better product, at higher volume.

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

In 2017, when our CEO first had the idea behind the VHL platform, she was worried others would develop similar precision nutrition solutions.

5 years later and we still have the only fully comprehensive precision nutrition engine on the planet.

🚀🚀

https://t.co/TwA6FOezZ5

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Key challenges facing bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing in 2022:

https://t.co/gCf6OBGF0C

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Purchasing and supply chain is a huge challenge for companies building in the bio-economy.

This is a total game changer, now and in the coming landscape, for both start-ups and industry incumbents:

https://t.co/SvOdyFE1ym

.@jrwolfe

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

So your lead asset is a monoclonal antibody...

With optimal feeding, you can:

- optimize glycosylation, which is critical for appropriate pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics
- increase titer and manufacturability
- reach patients faster and cheaper

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

So you did some spent media analysis and added 3 ingredients to your media formulation to get 10% greater productivity...

Cool.

Our process identifies 20 - 70 key components for your cells which increase productivity by fold changes.

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

By optimizing culture media, you can:

1) De-risk
2) Accelerate the lifecycle
3) Decrease experimental effort
4) Increase quality
5) Eliminate variation
6) Enhance yields/titers
7) Expand the bottom-line

tl;dr get there better, faster, cheaper.

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

95% of a cell's energy budget is spent on protein production, mainly for the enzymes used for cell metabolism.

By optimizing cellular metabolism, you free up energy that can be used for other processes, like recombinant production.

= better product, faster, and cheaper.

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

How IP-NFTs and fractionalization could democratize access to key foundational technologies, such as our Ser-X service.

https://t.co/tFKcNzU5jX

.@FutureFoodsDAO

More about Ser-X: https://t.co/26p2SdY3Ov

#desci #web3 #IPNFT #NFT

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

1000X congrats to our co-founder, .@AlecM_Santiago, on successfully defending his Ph.D.!

In addition to building VHL while accomplishing an impressive body of doctoral work, Alec has accomplished 15 other incredibly notable achievements in the last 5 years. Great job, Alec!

[Van Heron Labs @vanheronlabs]

Tons of companies are working on programming cells.

We're working on programming cellular fuel.