About Anodyne

Our Story

Anodyne is a Canadian startup with the vision to make the chemical industry sustainable by harnessing the potential of enzymes. Our enzymatic platform is created through a pioneering approach that combines the evolutionary advantages of biology with the efficiencies of the chemical industry. By transitioning from fossil to fossil-free manufacturing, we seek to play a key role in solving one of the grand challenges of our time – how to produce affordable, sustainable products that we use every day.

We are striving to build the industry’s leading chemical technology platform, the infrastructure to accelerate scale-up, a rapidly expanding pipeline, and a world-class team. Our pipeline includes development candidates for fuels, polymers, food additives and pharmaceutical ingredients, and we have multiple trials underway with other development candidates. In addition, we have initiated discovery programs with leading research universities, expanding the potential impact for our technologies.

Area of Expertise

01.Synthetic Biology
02.Electrochemistry
03.Enzyme Engineering
04.Process Engineering
05.Manufacturing
06.Sustainability

Our story so far

Our journey to become a sustainable chemical leader began by asking ourselves an intractable question: ‘what is a better catalyst than a catalyst?’

We asked this question because the chemicals industry is energy intensive. So it would be both a difficult but valuable problem to solve.

This hunger for energy exists because the catalysts and processes we have come to rely on are energy inefficient. They need heat and pressure to transform one chemical into another. And the cheapest, most abundant source of energy to date has been fossil fuels. So if we could solve the energy problem, we could have a big impact on the chemical industry’s carbon intensity.

We saw other innovators use fermentation or electrolysis, and found them fundamentally limited, either because they use uneconomic amounts of electricity or require significant downstream processing. Both of which we believed would limit their ability to operate profitably on a global scale.

So we set out to discover another pathway. One that could become a platform to produce many kinds of chemicals. One that could help the chemical industry transition to sustainable manufacturing. One that would be climate positive and carbon negative.

The Team

Iain Evans, PhD

Chief Executive

Manou Davies

Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder

Curtis Gibbs, PhD

Research Scientist

Jason Kwan, PhD

Lead, Electrochemistry

Alisson Bastos

Lead, Bioprocessing

Eric Mielke, P.Eng

Lead, Engineering

Phillip Danby, PhD

Lead, Enzymology

Callum Bulman

Junior Bioprocess Engineer

William Shen

Biochemist

Negar Moradi

Lab Manager

Antony St-Jacques, PhD

Computational Enzymologist

Ishita, PhD

Electrochemical Technician

Join our Team

Our team culture is diverse and collaborative by design: we are pioneering an entirely new approach for an established and critical industry. Our doors are open to the very best talent from all backgrounds and experiences, and we’d love to hear from you as we expand our team.

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