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Biosortia is a therapeutics, agrochemical and cosmetics company developing products from microbial small molecules through microbiome mining. Biosortia establishes libraries of natural molecule activity and derivatives from microorganisms extracted from the natural world. Biosortia is in the JLABS incubator and received a $1 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) contract with the Department of Homeland Security.
As part of their cancer drug discovery research Biosortia tests compounds isolated from microorganisms on cancer cell lines. Biosortia sampled from cyanobacterial blooms in Buckeye Lake and Grand Lake St. Marys in Ohio and disovered a new series of cardiotoxic steroids. The group also discovered new cytotoxic compounds from a Microcystis aeruginosa bloom.
