Biotech startup Cyclica has spun out a company from the University of Toronto’s Stagljar Lab. Called Perturba Therapeutics Inc., the spin-out fuses together Cyclica’s AI-augmented chemistry technology and the Staljar Lab’s biological science.

“We created Perturba to combine our two approaches to drug discovery for many types of cancers that are really recalcitrant to other techniques,” said Naheed Kurji, co-founder, CEO and president of Cyclica.

Founded in 2020, but just newly announced, Perturba builds on previous work Cyclica and the Stagljar Lab carried out in 2019, designing chemistry for a specific biological target linked to non-small cell lung cancer, a highly prevalent and resistant form of lung cancer.

Cyclica presented at the 2022 OBIO Investment Summit.