Revolutionizing Immuno-oncology
We’re enabling antibody-based therapies to attack targets that are inside cells, such as mutated cancer-causing and viral proteins.
Cancer will have no place to hide
Myrio Therapeutics (formerly Affinity BIO) is a privately-owned biotechnology company based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded by biotechnology entrepreneurs Ben Kiefel and Matt Beasley in 2009, Myrio started to build and develop the world’s fastest antibody discovery platform. Myrio’s resulting technology, Retained DisplayTM (ReD), has since been tested in campaigns against some of the most difficult diagnostic and lab reagent targets the team could find.
In late 2016, industry veteran Pete Smith joined Myrio as CEO, and the team set their sights on developing therapeutic antibodies. Recognizing that ReD is best differentiated by its ability to hit difficult targets, Myrio focused on discovering antibodies specific for pMHCs – thereby enabling cells to be targeted on the basis of their expression of particular intracellular and secreted proteins. Initial screens proved highly successful and Myrio has since gone on to successfully identify high affinity and selective antibodies against numerous pMHCs, possibly more than the rest of the world combined.
Myrio is collaborating with some of the world’s leading institutions, working on a diverse range of targets, including endogenous retroviruses and patient-specific neoantigens. These collaborations have demonstrated the utility of Myrio’s human scFv in bispecific and CAR-T formats. Myrio’s strategy is to work with partners to develop therapeutics against specific targets while also establishing spin-outs or joint-ventures to clinically develop specific assets.
Our Team
Ben Kiefel
Chief Operating Officer
Ben co-founded Affinity in 2009 and serves as COO and a Director. After starting his career in Evolutionary Biology, Ben realized early that he had an entrepreneurial flare and a passion for applied research...
Matt Beasley
Chief Science Officer
Matt co-founded Affinity in 2009 and serves as CSO and a Director. Matt has been a molecular biologist for over 20 years and started his first venture in 2005. Together with Ben,...
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Partnering with us
Myrio is seeking partnerships to fully exploit the potential of its technology whilst also building an in-house portfolio of products.