Change Bio

Built by people who believe in the potential of proteins.

Change Bio brings together commercial leadership, computational biology, bioprocess engineering, and industrial fermentation expertise.

Founders

  • Zoe Woods

    Co-founder and CEO

    Zoe Woods

    Experienced operator. Ex-consulting. Previously founded a DTC foot care product to $2M revenue. MBA and MPP at Oxford. Raised five sources of non-dilutive funding including the WomenTech EU and WE-RISE grants for women-led DeepTech. Royal Society speaker and Innovate UK GEM (Engineering Biology) selected expert.

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  • Noah Sprent

    Co-founder and CTO

    Noah Sprent

    Scientist and engineer at the interface of engineering biology and computational protein production methods. MBiochem Oxford, PhD Chemical Engineering Imperial. Nearly a decade spent as a specialist in K. phaffii strain engineering and ML-driven bioprocess design.

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Advisors

  • Industrial fermentation

    Dr Geoff Bryant

    Formerly CTO of Calysta, where he delivered Calysseo, a 20,000 tonne per year commercial fermentation facility in China. Previously Mars and Quorn. Now with the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein at Imperial.

  • High-throughput biology

    Professor John Heap

    World-leader in high-throughput platform building. Founder of Glycocell, a national hub that will develop vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics, benefiting millions of people worldwide, thanks to £12.3M in funding from UK Research and Innovation.