Building on nature's successes
Human Health Care

Human Health Care

AvidBiotics’ Avidocin™ and Micacide™ proteins offer great specificity against targeted bacteria and virus-infected or cancer cells. Learn more»

Food Safety

Food Safety

Purocin™ proteins offer a new way to combat rising bacterial contamination of foods with both specificity and safety. Learn more»

bio defense

bio defense

Avidocin™ proteins offer potential rapid biodefense against weaponized bacteria like anthrax, plague and others. Learn more»

Animal Health

Animal Health

Purocin™ proteins could replace antibiotics used to promote growth or treat disease in food animals without furthering antibiotic resistance. Learn more»

Building on Nature’s Successes

AvidBiotics generates non-antibody proteins that specifically target bacteria, viruses or cancer cells for human therapeutic and prophylactic uses, as well as food safety, biodefense, animal husbandry and a host of other potential applications. The basis of AvidBiotics’ technology is specificity – the key to both efficacy and safety in all applications.

Cofounders James L. Knighton and David W. Martin, MD.

News

DGR Technology Platform for Engineering Proteins Advanced in Publication by AvidBiotics Collaborators

South San Francisco, CA (December 15, 2011): AvidBiotics today announced the publication of new findings in PLoS Genetics that could enable genetic Continue»

AvidBiotics’ Targeted Antibacterial Proteins Show Potential to Address Food-Borne Bacterial Infections, Provide Antibiotic Alternative

New Publication Demonstrates Ability of Avidocin™ Proteins to Prevent and Treat E. coli O157 Diarrhea in Animal Study Continue»

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