Platinum Sponsor
Horizon Discovery
Horizon is a cell-engineering company focused on commercializing the application of gene editing and gene modulation to accelerate scientific innovation and biopharmaceutical drug development.
Horizon is leveraging its technological expertise to provide cell engineering tools and services to its customers in three key areas of the therapeutic ecosystem: basic research, drug discovery and development and therapeutic applications.
Business units
Horizon currently operates through four business units:
- Research Reagents: offers tools and services that help scientists better understand biological pathways and mechanisms of disease, as well as molecular reference standards used in the development of diagnostics tests;
- Screening: offers tools and services that are designed to improve the outcome of drug discovery and development;
- BioProduction: offers engineered cell lines that are designed to enable efficient biologics manufacturing; and
- Base Editing: develops tools and services that are based on a highly accurate, novel platform that Horizon intends to license to its customers for gene and cell therapeutic development. Base editing is a new category in gene editing that allows scientists to make specific edits to single bases in DNA, with the goal of providing more accurate gene editing by reducing unintended genomic changes. As a novel technology, base editing has not yet been clinically validated for use in human therapeutics.
Portfolio
Horizon’s business is underpinned by its portfolio of cell engineering tools and services, featuring gene editing technologies such as CRISPR and base editing and gene modulation technologies such as RNAi. Horizon’s offerings support and enable critical elements of the drug development and therapeutic value chain, particularly in the area of precision medicine.
Global reach
Horizon’s customers include biopharmaceutical and diagnostics companies, contract research and manufacturing organizations and academic researchers across the globe. In 2019, Horizon sold its tools and services to more than 2,000 unique customers in over 60 countries, including to 19 of the 20 largest biopharmaceutical companies by revenue.
Horizon is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom and has an office and manufacturing facility near Boulder, Colorado. Horizon employs approximately 400 people globally.
Associated Experts
Job Title: Global Product Manager of Bioproduction
Job Title: Corporate Development Partner
Associated Content
The need of a therapeutic gene editor to develop the next generation of CAR T Therapy
Questions remain over whether cell therapies, such as CAR-T-cells, represent a new era of frontline therapy with potential significance to match that of monoclonal antibodies or whether they will be an effective but niche approach for a narrow range of indications and a relatively small number of patients....Continued
The CHO Cell Line – From Reliable Workhorse to State-of-the-art Protein Powerhouse
Alan Dickson talks about the evolution of the CHO Cell line from isolation to workhorse of the biomanufacturing industry, to gene edited knockout variants. It is an interesting look at why CHO cells have been so successful and how this success continues to be improved upon for manufacture of emerging therapeutics....Continued
CHOSOURCE™ GS Knockout Cell Line Provides Flexible Solutions to Biomanufacturing Challenges
In recent years have witnessed a renaissance in the use of perfusion and process intensification technologies with diverse motivations, ranging from better controlling product quality (particularly in labile products), to increasing yield for a given footprint, or reducing timelines and costs. These diverse manufacturing paradigms have given rise to flexible facilities capable to handle diverse molecular types requiring different production workflows, and production scales without requiring substantial engineering adaptations....Continued