Proteins for Everyone, Made by Anyone.™

Sunflower Therapeutics is a biotechnology company delivering next-generation protein manufacturing solutions designed for anyone to use anywhere. Our approach is automated and fully-integrated to replace complexity with simplicity from discovery and development to full-scale biomanufacturing.

It all starts with the Daisy Petal™

Intuitive

Sunflower’s automated, easy-to-use protein manufacturing solutions empower innovators to keep pace with the rapidly expanding market for innovative new medicines, food products, and other bio-produced products.

Sustainable

Every detail of our systems is designed to streamline protein manufacturing. Created for deployment wherever innovation is needed, including domestic manufacturing initiatives, our systems empower researchers and developers to get results faster.

Efficient

Our modular, automated, and fully-integrated platform is replacing complexity with simplicity from discovery and development to full-scale manufacturing.

Conventional protein production requires significant resources and a skilled workforce.

See how Sunflower Therapeutics’ solutions reduce those barriers and make protein manufacturing intuitive and accessible.

THE PROBLEM: Conventional biomanufacturing is expensive, inflexible, highly manual and not continuous

SUNFLOWER’S SOLUTION: Flexible, automated, and continuous single-use microbial bioprocessing that delivers up to:

7X

Reduced Facility Size

10X

Increased Yield

10X

Reduced Cost of Goods Manufactured

90%

Reduced Energy & Water

Sunflower’s manufacturing approach is based on three key technologies:

The choice of host organism is the biggest lever to reduce cost and simplify a protein production process. Yeast are our secret weapon to manufacture high quality protein and lower cost due to their unique ability to:

  • Secrete complex proteins
  • Utilize less expensive raw materials
  • Enable rapid design and development cycles
  • Simplify purification
  • Enable high space-time yields

Using integrated, continuous processes with only a few steps reduces the manufacturing footprint, raw material usage and production time while enabling complete process automation. We utilize perfusion fermentation and straight-through chromatography to develop simple, integrated processes. On average, Sunflower’s manufacturing processes have 50% fewer steps compared to typical processes.

Deploying simple production processes on fully automated and continuous bioprocessing equipment enables production of high quality protein with minimal upfront capital and ongoing operating expenses. Our bioprocess equipment is:

Continuous: Overcomes limits of batch production for lower costs

Automated: Custom software for hands-free operations

Intuitive: Designed for users with diverse backgrounds

Flexible: Accommodates diverse protein classes made from microbes

Sustainable: Reduces water and energy consumption

Deployable: Ready for immediate use in many environments