BCAB

Bioatla, Inc.

A San Diego biopharmaceutical company developing antibody-based medicines for solid-tumor cancers. Its signature Conditionally Active Biologics (CAB) platform engineers antibodies to stay switched off in healthy tissue and only wake up in the acidic environment of a tumor, sparing healthy cells. Founded in 2007 by biotech veteran Jay Short and Carolyn Anderson, the firm's name plays on that same idea—antibodies that act only under certain conditions.