Surrozen, Inc.
A clinical-stage biotech that turns the body's own repair signals into medicines, Surrozen builds antibody drugs that mimic Wnt proteins — the natural molecules that tell tissue to regenerate. Founded in 2015 by Stanford and other scientists, its lead work targets sight-threatening eye diseases like wet age-related macular degeneration. The name blends "surrogate" and "zen": the engineered antibodies act as stand-ins for the body's repair messengers, long considered impossible to turn into drugs.