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Trellis Bioscience

702 Marshall Street Suite 301, Redwood City, CA, 94063, United States

Overview

Trellis Bioscience uses a proprietary technology to clone human antibodies from white blood cells and develops native human monoclonal antibodies to address difficult infectious diseases. Its lead program, calpurbatug (TRL1068), is an investigational monoclonal antibody aimed at disrupting biofilms and is in a Phase 2 trial for chronic prosthetic joint infections. The company also has a pipeline of antiviral antibodies, one of which is in a clinical trial. Trellis highlights that human antibodies have a lower toxicity-related failure rate than other drug classes and that its discovery approach isolates antibodies from recovered patients. The company is based in Redwood City, CA. To date Trellis has raised approximately $35 million in equity, complemented by a comparable amount of non-dilutive grant funding from NIAID and CARB-X.

Total raised
$19M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series C
Latest activity
Jul 2026

Industries

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Oncology
  • Therapeutics
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Recent funding

  1. Series C

    Jul 2026

    $9M

  2. Equity

    Feb 2007

    $10M

Team

  • Stefan Ryser

    President & Chief Executive Officer

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  • Lawrence Kauvar

    Founder & CSO

  • Stote Ellsworth

    Chief Technology Officer & Founder

  • Geoffrey Dillon

    Chief Business Officer

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