BioFund places real research assets — proteins, cell lines, processing capacity, and AI discovery tools — in the hands of researchers who share the mission of curing and preventing cancer.
Not a fund you pitch to. A platform you partner with.
Cancer won't be solved in a single lab. The science is distributed. We spent years building the platforms — and we're now placing them where the work is actually happening.
BioFund is a family office founded by seven families with one mission: to cure and prevent cancer. We work through a OneHealth approach — companion animals as the first clinical validation pathway, human therapeutics as the destination, and prevention through bioactive science as the other half of the equation. BioFund is the family office behind the mission. For years, we built and refined five research platforms for our own science. We are now opening them to mission-aligned collaborators across the United States — selectively, through relationships, one real project at a time.
We are an impact investor, not a donor. We commit our platforms first — and we look for partners who come ready to do the same when the work proves itself. Shared mission is the entry point. Shared skin in the game is where serious collaborations go.
Five platforms built for our own research. Each collaboration begins with one — the specific one that fits your program. Not a menu, a match. Everything below was built for our own science. The right partner gets access.
We produce novel proteins and biosimilars for our own oncology and OneHealth research, held in a growing Master Cell Bank. When a research program needs a protein we already carry, access comes through a joint project — no lengthy procurement, no ambiguous IP terms.
Research-grade access to specific proteins from our Master Cell Bank through a jointly structured project. Your IP stays yours. Publications by mutual agreement.
When a researcher has a promising molecule and the biology is fighting back — unstable expression, insufficient yield — we engineer a stable, high-yield cell line around their molecule. The discovery is entirely theirs. We solve the biology problem that was blocking it.
A stable, high-yield, production-ready cell line engineered around your molecule. You own the cell line and everything derived from it.
Companion animals develop the same cancers humans do — spontaneously, in real bodies, on real timelines. We work with veterinary researchers whose patients need care today. The data those studies generate shortens the road to human therapeutics. One act of medicine, two beneficiaries.
A translational oncology partner for companion animal studies. Data structured from day one to inform human therapeutic development. Shared rights by agreement.
We built the UFP500 platform for our own prevention research — ultra-fine particle processing that unlocks the bioactive potential of plant, marine, and agricultural materials with documented bioavailability enhancement. When there is a compelling R&D or product development question — a promising source material, a waste stream worth developing, a formulation challenge — we work on it as a co-development collaboration. We source the materials. We run the processing. We build something novel together.
A co-development partner, not a processing service. We bring the UFP500 technology, the materials sourcing, and the R&D expertise. You bring the scientific question or the product application. IP and commercial terms structured around what we build together.
We built micronutri.ai for our own search for compounds that protect cells before disease takes hold. Curing cancer is one half of the mission. The other half is making sure fewer people need to be cured. If you have a discovery problem where that intelligence layer helps, we work on it with you.
Access to the micronutri.ai platform for a jointly scoped bioactive research project, structured around your specific compound or target. IP on discoveries stays with the originating researcher.
Your collaboration
begins here.
The network is open.
Through a warm introduction or a direct reach-out to our San Francisco team. The first conversation is a conversation — what you're working on, what's blocking it, whether there's a fit. We know quickly when it's there, and we say so when it isn't.
One platform, matched to one specific problem in your program. Not a menu — the specific protein, the processing run, the cell line, the AI pilot. If the fit isn't obvious, we say so and don't waste your time.
We ship the protein, run the processing, or stand up the AI pilot — before we negotiate terms. That's how we prove we're serious. As the work proves itself, we expect the same from the other side: real commitment to the mission, shared stake, skin in the game. We are not a grant program. The right collaborator doesn't want us to be.
Good work earns introductions. The collaborator who joined through a trusted connection becomes the reference for the next one. That's how this network grows — the same way every real research relationship does. Through people who can say, from direct experience, that the work was genuine.
A single collaboration opens onto the wider world of the mission — each entity a doorway to the others.
Explore the whole ecosystem at universe.biofund.org.
If your research shares the mission — and you're ready to show up the same way we do — there is a platform for your work in the Network.
Start a conversation Tell us what you're working on and where you think there's a fit. We always respond where alignment is real.