MIP Discovery today announced the Company’s rebrand to Tozaro, completing its transition to becoming a technology innovator in the cell and gene therapy (CGT) bioprocessing sector. The rebrand comes at a time of significant growth for the Company, following the refocusing of its mission to improve downstream processing within the CGT sector by helping to transform the development and manufacture of viral vectors, alongside its successful £7M Series A funding round in February 1 . The Company’s updated brand identity fully supports this shift in focus, underpinning its commitment to enable innovation within CGT bioprocessing with its smart polymer technology.
Tozaro’s smart polymers are uniquely and rationally designed using computational chemistry to create novel affinity solutions that enable users to extend beyond the boundaries of what is currently possible with biological reagents . As part of the design process, whole viruses are assessed to identify unique surface epitopes for synthetic affinity reagents to bind. A library of over 600 monomers (the building blocks of smart polymers) are screened against the identified epitopes to choose those with optimal characteristics for new smart polymer development.
The chemical manufacture process gives control over specific features such as affinity to the virus, allowing fine tuning to specific application requirements in analytics and purification. This, combined with the scalability and safety profile of non-biological.