

Aves Labs co-founder Dr. Gary Ciment was a professor of Cell Biology at Oregon Health & Sciences University, and looked to chicken antibodies after the failure of rabbit and mouse antibodies against a highly-conserved mammalian gene product. His success with chicken polyclonal antibodies resulted in the founding of Aves Labs in 1995, which has since pioneered novel algorithms for finding highly-immunogenic peptide sequences within proteins, developed novel affinity purification methods specific for chicken antibodies, and developed a host of other useful reagents.