On April 5, 2021 Outpace Bio, a spinout from Lyell Immunopharma, reported that the company has landed $30 million in Series A funding to design new proteins that solve problems in cell therapies (Press release, Outpace Bio, APR 5, 2021, View Source [SID1234637777]). Lyell’s focus is developing new T cell therapies to fight cancer. To get started, Outpace is collaborating with Lyell to develop molecular controls for T cells that could refine and strengthen targeted cell therapies. Beyond that, the company plans to establish a series of partnerships to develop a variety of next-generation cell therapies

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Outpace co-founders Marc Lajoie and Scott Boyken both trained in the Baker lab at the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, which specializes in "de novo protein design." Rather than finding proteins that already exist and then trying to customize them, de novo protein design means building completely original proteins from basic building blocks, using advanced computer algorithms to predict the created protein’s final 3D shape.