March 23, 2023
Huge news from the entrepreneurial side of the Chilkoti lab: Isolere, a company founded in 2017 by Tosh, Kelli Luginbuhl, who recieved her PhD in the Chilkoti lab, and Joe McMahon, partner at Bioventure Partners, has been acquired by Donaldson Company, a global maker of filtration products. Isolere harnesses the power of protein phase separation to purify gene therapy vectors at yeilds significantly higher than the current standard. Congrats to Tosh, Kelli, Joe, and the rest of Isolere, including CSO Mike Dzuricky, who also got his PhD in the Chilkoti lab!
Read about the whole history of Isolere here: https://otc.duke.edu/news/isolere-bio-inside-the-journey-of-a-duke-biotech-start-up/
Official press release from Donaldson: https://www.donaldson.com/en-us/news/donaldson-acquires-isolere/