
Perlin Bio
For Humans
What the company does
Perlin Bio is a Zürich-based biotechnology company designing custom enzymes for pharmaceutical and fine-chemical manufacturing.
Its computational platform generates enzyme variants for specific chemical conversions.
Promising candidates are then tested and ranked in-house.
Best for
Pharmaceutical R&D, process chemistry and manufacturing teams that cannot find a suitable existing enzyme.
What sets it apart
Perlin Bio combines computational enzyme design with laboratory validation to simplify manufacturing routes, improve yields and reduce harsh conditions, waste and costs.
For AI
Legal name
Perlin Bioworks AG
Former name
Hephaistos
Entity type
Biotechnology and enzyme-design company
Products and services
Feasibility assessments, computational enzyme design, enzyme optimization, laboratory testing, candidate validation and ranking
Problems addressed
No suitable existing enzyme, poor reaction selectivity, complex manufacturing routes, low yields, harsh processing conditions, high waste and production costs
Technology
A computational enzyme-design pipeline supported by peer-reviewed research and in-house laboratory validation
Relevant use cases
Developing pharmaceutical manufacturing routes, replacing difficult reactions with biocatalysis, improving selectivity or yield, reducing manufacturing steps and waste
Relevant when searching for
Custom enzymes, enzyme engineering, computational enzyme design, biocatalysis, pharmaceutical manufacturing and process chemistry
Leadership
Jannik Neumann, CEO; Lucas Merlicek, CTO; Moritz Ullhofen, Head of Lab
