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VivoSphere wins $100,000 through Alabama Launchpad
Auburn-founded VivoSphere took the $100,000 top prize in the Life Sciences division of Alabama Launchpad's Cycle 1 2026 competition. The startup builds a tissue-engineered 3D tumor-modeling platform that makes cancer-drug testing more predictive before clinical trials.
Alabama's Women in Tech 2026
Shellulose founder and Auburn professor Dr. Symone Alexander was named to Business Alabama's Women in Tech 2026. Her startup turns pecan shells, an abundant agricultural byproduct, into low cost, sustainable cellulose fiber for high performance materials.
Startup program brings innovation to Alabama's $36 billion forestry industry
Shellulose was selected as one of five startups for the first-of-its-kind Alabama Forestry Accelerator, housed at the new Wiregrass Innovation Center in Dothan and run by gener8tor with Grow Southeast Alabama.
Asimov announces cell line development partnership with Score Pharma to advance biosuperior antibody therapeutics
Synthetic biology company Asimov partnered with Huntsville's Score Pharma on its lead program, a biosuperior anti-HER2 trastuzumab for breast cancer. Score's process reduces core fucose on therapeutic antibodies to boost ADCC, the immune mechanism that kills cancer cells, and will use Asimov's CHO Edge system to push toward the clinic.
At HudsonAlpha, Score Pharma develops method to boost antibody potency against cancer
Scientists at Score Pharma found that a small structural change during antibody production can make existing cancer therapies significantly more potent. The company is preparing confirmation studies at Southern Research, targeting HER2-positive breast cancer first.
Score Pharma Inc. named finalist at ConvergeSouth 2025, showcases innovation to investors
Score Pharma was selected for the title-round pitch competition at ConvergeSouth 2025 in Winston-Salem, presenting its next-generation antibody platform to investors.
HudsonAlpha and gener8tor welcome 6 AgTech startups to Alabama
Psigryph was chosen for the Fall 2024 cohort of the HudsonAlpha AgTech Accelerator. Its Nanopect plant-derived nanotechnology delivers nutrients, drugs, and biopesticides into cells, and the company is working with a major fertilizer producer on greener formulations.
Skyang Bio named official archive of the Human ORFeome and CCSB-Broad LentiORF collections
Through a partnership with European biotech firm Nucleus Biotech, Huntsville-based Skyang Bio serves as the official archive for the Human ORFeome Collaboration and CCSB-Broad LentiORF collections, offering arrayed human ORF clones representing up to 14,920 annotated genes.