The minds behind the molecular search engine
Innophore started with a handful of researchers in Graz. Today we are a larger, interdisciplinary team working at the interface of biology, chemistry, physics and computer science. Senior and early-career researchers work on the same problems, and both show up across our publications.
The mix of skills it takes.
Reading a binding site takes more than one kind of expert. Our team combines several specialties, and each one is needed to get from a raw structure to an answer a partner can use.
Reading the structure
Point-cloud cavity analysis and proteome-scale structure prediction with AlphaFold 2, OpenFold and ESMFold. This is the science at the core of Catalophore™ and CavitOmiX.
Reasoning over it
Deep learning for proteins, molecular-dynamics-guided design, binding-affinity prediction and AI-guided ligand modification.
Running it at scale
Clusters of about 6,500 CPUs, cloud on AWS and Google Cloud, and GPU acceleration with NVIDIA, including hand-tuned CUDA down to the assembly level.
Putting enzymes to work
Enzyme discovery and engineering, biocatalytic cascades and the use of renewable feedstocks for more sustainable chemistry.
Getting the chemistry right
(Bio)organic chemistry, structural biology and protein characterization, with ligand preparation based on explicit, validated chemistry rather than models that only look plausible.
Turning science into delivery
Biotech venture management, corporate finance, project leadership and client partnerships that carry a result from the lab to the partner.
We solve problems collaboratively.
Each problem deserves its own solution. Our specialists sit at the same table, so a structure can move from prediction to interpretation to design without ever leaving the team.
- Interdisciplinary by default. Biologists, chemists, physicists and computer scientists working the same problem from different angles.
- Grounded in science. Every method traces back to peer-reviewed, reproducible work, starting with our founding Nature Communications paper.
- Built for partners. Scientists who also manage projects and client collaborations, end to end.
- Trained at the top. Degrees, postdocs and group leadership earned at world-leading universities and research institutes across Europe and the US.
Top institutions. Our people studied, did research and taught at places like The Scripps Research Institute, KTH Stockholm, Manchester, Vienna, Stuttgart and Graz. The full list is on the right, and that training is what the platform is built on.
It also shapes how we work: we check the methods and the chemistry instead of trusting a result at face value.
Trained where the science is made
The skills in the room.
A snapshot of what our team works in, every day.
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