# Axbio

> Axbio is a semiconductor-biotechnology company building instruments, chips, reagents, and software for long-read sequencing and multiplex molecular diagnostics. Its defining bet is that biological events can be sensed electrically at semiconductor scale: the research-use AxiLona AXP-100 combines nanopore sequencing-by-synthesis, circular-consensus correction, and a million-channel Bio-CMOS chip, while the AxiLona EL-100 turns captured nucleic-acid targets into electrical signals for compact multiplex testing.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, United States
- **Founders:** Hui Tian (Co-founder, Chairman and CEO), Igor Ivanov (Co-founder and COO)
- **Products:** AxiLona AXP-100, AxiLona EL-100, AxiLona Auto Lib Prep, Sequencing and diagnostic consumables, MetaCONNET
- **Notable:** Integrated its proprietary Bio-CMOS sequencing-chip process in 2018., Released engineering prototypes of the AXP-100 in 2019 and EL-100 in 2020., Opened a roughly 4,100-square-meter GMP-compliant production base in Wuxi in 2022.

## Products & services

- **AxiLona AXP-100** — Research-use nanopore gene sequencer using sequencing-by-synthesis, circular-consensus correction, electrical detection, and a one-million-channel Bio-CMOS sensor; company specifications list up to 100 Gb per run, reads up to 100 kb, and runs under four hours.
- **AxiLona EL-100** — Compact microarray analyzer for multiplex electrochemical nucleic-acid detection; company specifications list 1-54 targets and a chip-detection stage measured in minutes. It received CE marking in 2023 and a Jiangsu Class II medical-device registration certificate in 2025.
- **AxiLona Auto Lib Prep** — Research-use automated library-preparation system designed to process up to eight samples per batch with reduced hands-on work.
- **Sequencing and diagnostic consumables** — Universal sequencing, library-preparation, sample-collection, nucleic-acid extraction, microarray, and application-specific detection kits.
- **MetaCONNET** — Open-source deep-learning software for polishing metagenomic long-read assemblies, published with academic collaborators in PLOS ONE.
- **Custom R&D services** — Chemical synthesis, bioinformatics analysis, customized sequencing panels, and high-throughput protein mutation and screening services.
- **AxiLona AXP-1000** — Planned ultra-high-throughput EL-NGS sequencer based on a ten-million-channel chip; design and development began in 2025.

## Achievements

- Integrated its proprietary Bio-CMOS sequencing-chip process in 2018.
- Released engineering prototypes of the AXP-100 in 2019 and EL-100 in 2020.
- Opened a roughly 4,100-square-meter GMP-compliant production base in Wuxi in 2022.
- Obtained ISO 13485:2016 certification and CE marking for the EL-100 in 2023.
- Published peer-reviewed work on high-throughput salt-tolerant Phi29 polymerase screening in 2023.
- Installed an AXP-100 at Brown University in 2024.
- Published MetaCONNET in PLOS ONE and released the code publicly in 2024.
- Received a Jiangsu Class II medical-device registration certificate for the EL-100 in 2025.
- Filed a renewed Hong Kong listing application in May 2026; the filing was not an approval or completed offering.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Axbio International filed a renewed application to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under Chapter 18A. The exchange notice states that the application had not been approved and did not guarantee an offering.
- **2025-05** — The company’s published history says the AxiLona EL-100 received a Jiangsu Class II medical-device registration certificate after completing its clinical trial.
- **2025-02** — Axbio presented its sequencing and molecular-diagnostics platforms at PMWC 2025.
- **2024-12** — Axbio researchers and academic collaborators published the open-source MetaCONNET metagenomic polishing tool in PLOS ONE.
- **2024-11** — The AxiLona AXP-100 was installed in Professor Peter Belenky’s microbiome laboratory at Brown University.

## Links

- Website: https://www.axbio.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/axbio-inc/
- GitHub: https://github.com/Axbio

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Last updated: 2026-09-28