PEPPER | Industrial-scale plant-based protein production in a cell-free platform

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The company
LenioBio is a biotech company that develops and markets a novel, unique and proprietary protein production platform, ALiCE®, which enables protein-based therapeutics to become more accessible and affordable and specifically targeting the substantial but underserved class of ‘difficult-to-express (DTE) proteins’.

LenioBio has developed a proprietary tobacco-based cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) platform “ALiCE” with a higher yield (3 mg/ml) than any other eukaryotic cell-free system currently available (0.2 mg/ml) at a lower cost, while ensuring protein stability and activity.
The goal of PEPPER is to bring LenioBio to a position of competitiveness and growth to be able to meet the current industrial demands of ‘difficult- to-produce’ proteins for various biotechnology sectors (e.g. pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries). To achieve this, LenioBio will scale-up the protein production capacity and yield to be able to produce proteins at an industrial scale using a semi- automated platform, while complying to GMP protocols and FDA/EMA regulations for biopharmaceuticals proteins.
LenioBio’s mission is to offer a fully integrated protein production platform for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with the ability to scale along with our customers’ needs. LenioBio is developing the ALiCE® technology into the first eukaryotic cell-free production platform for any proteins.

LenioBio launched its first product as a protein expression kit in 2018 under the name ALiCE® (Almost Living Cell-free Expression). Due to its sustainable competitive advantages, already within nine months, 8 of the top 10 biopharma companies are customers, with more in the process of registering LenioBio as a vendor.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/881025
Start date: 01-12-2019
End date: 28-02-2022
Total budget - Public funding: 3 391 250,00 Euro - 2 373 875,00 Euro
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The company
LenioBio is a biotech company that develops and markets a novel, unique and proprietary protein production platform, ALiCE®, which enables protein-based therapeutics to become more accessible and affordable and specifically targeting the substantial but underserved class of ‘difficult-to-express (DTE) proteins’.

LenioBio has developed a proprietary tobacco-based cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) platform “ALiCE” with a higher yield (3 mg/ml) than any other eukaryotic cell-free system currently available (0.2 mg/ml) at a lower cost, while ensuring protein stability and activity.
The goal of PEPPER is to bring LenioBio to a position of competitiveness and growth to be able to meet the current industrial demands of ‘difficult- to-produce’ proteins for various biotechnology sectors (e.g. pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries). To achieve this, LenioBio will scale-up the protein production capacity and yield to be able to produce proteins at an industrial scale using a semi- automated platform, while complying to GMP protocols and FDA/EMA regulations for biopharmaceuticals proteins.
LenioBio’s mission is to offer a fully integrated protein production platform for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with the ability to scale along with our customers’ needs. LenioBio is developing the ALiCE® technology into the first eukaryotic cell-free production platform for any proteins.

LenioBio launched its first product as a protein expression kit in 2018 under the name ALiCE® (Almost Living Cell-free Expression). Due to its sustainable competitive advantages, already within nine months, 8 of the top 10 biopharma companies are customers, with more in the process of registering LenioBio as a vendor.

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CLOSED

Call topic

EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020

Update Date

26-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
H2020-EU.2.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
H2020-EU.2.1.0. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Cross-cutting calls
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2
H2020-EU.2.3. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.3.0. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs - Cross-cutting calls
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2
H2020-EU.3. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
H2020-EU.3.0. Cross-cutting call topics
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2