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September 15, 2023

 “Two Years of Unity and Steady Progress” – Writing on the Occasion of Qi-Biodesign’s Second Anniversary

Through wind and rain, spring and autumn, in the blink of an eye, Qi-Biodesign has reached an important milestone of its second anniversary since its establishment. Looking back on the past year, Qi-Biodesign has remained true to its original aspiration, laying a solid foundation, accumulating strength, and persevering with an entrepreneurial spirit to explore and make progress. Clarify strategic positioning and define development direction This year, we have redefined the mission and vision of Qi-Biodesign, clarified our strategic positioning, and clarified our development strategy. Corporate Mission: Gene editing creates limitless possibilities for the future. Just as Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Professor Jennifer A. Doudna, and her team stated in a review article in the journal Science: “Through relentless exploration of the natural world, we will discover new things beyond imagination and harness them for the benefit of the real world and the Earth.” Gene editing technology holds vast potential for […]

ABOUT US

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History

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Mission

For a better future

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Vision

Qi’s vision is to become a global leader in gene editing technology

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Core values

Truth
Innovation
Perseverance

—— SEEDIT™ Platform

SEED

Our SEED platform is led by a leading plant genetic transformation scientist with over 40 years of plant delivery experiences across a variety of species.

Our transformation team is suited to rapidly generate efficient plant transformation protocols to enable genome editing in plants, especially transgene-free genome editing.

Our plant delivery team has successfully demonstrated efficient delivery and regeneration across over 50 crop species, including in corn, soybean, wheat, rice, strawberries, lettuce, sugar beet and more.

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—— SEEDIT™ Platform

EDIT

Qi Biodesign pioneers the development of new and precise genome editing technologies.

Our research team discovers and engineers new protein complexes that can perform genome editing in living cells. We focus on tools that can enable gene knockout, base editing, prime editing, and targeted gene insertion in eukaryotic cells.

Our EDIT process blends the discovery of new proteins from nature with rapid protein evolution and engineering platforms to establish precise and efficient genome editing.

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SEED

—— Research publication

Cell(2023)

Discovery of deaminase functions by structure-based protein clusterin

A novel strategy for functional protein mining based on protein 3D structure
Nature Biotechnology (2023)

Precise integration of large DNA sequences in plant genomes using PrimeRoot editors

Development of PrimeROOT editing system for efficient and accurate targeted insertion of large fragments of DNA
Nature Biotechnology (2023)

Tuning plant phenotypes by precise, graded downregulation of gene expression

Development of new methods for predictable and precise down-regulation of protein expression of target genes
Nature Biotechnology (2022)

An engineered prime editor with enhanced editing efficiency in plants

Plant prime editing efficiencies can be enhanced through protein engineering
Nature (2022)

Genome-edited powdery mildew resistance in wheat without growth penalties

Multiplex genome editing breeds disease resistant and high-yielding wheat in one generation
Nature Biotechnology (2020)

Targeted, random mutagenesis of plant genes with dual cytosine and adenine base editors

High-throughput genome editing screens facilitates new gene discovery
Nature Plants (2019)

Generation of herbicide tolerance traits and a new selectable marker in wheat using base editing

Using base editing to create transgene-free herbicide resistant crops
Science (2019)

Cytosine, but not adenine, base editors induce genome-wide off-target mutations in rice

Development of a rapid and comprehensive method to evaluate base editing off-target mutations
Nature Biotechnology (2018)

Domestication of wild tomato is accelerated by genome editing

Multiplex genome editing enables rapid domestication of wild crop species

—— leadership team

Caixia Gao
Ph.D.
Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer
Caixia Gao
Bei Zhang
Ph.D.
Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer
Bei Zhang
Kevin Zhao
Ph.D.
Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer
Kevin Zhao
Allen
Cofounder and Chief Commercial Officer
Allen
Yidong Ran
Ph.D.
Director of Genetic Transformation
Yidong Ran
Kun Gao
Director of Infrastructure management
Kun Gao
Xin Zhang
Ph.D.
Director of Biological Breeding Testing
Xin Zhang
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