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Calico

Biotechnology company focused on aging and healthspan

calicolabs.com

Headquarters: South San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2013
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 450–500
Industry: Biotechnology & Medical Research

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Latest news about Calico

In short: Calico advanced its therapeutic pipeline for aging and rare diseases through FDA designations, key leadership hires, and collaborations.

Company announcements

June 23 Calico

Calico announces FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for fosigotifator

The designation is for treating Vanishing White Matter disease, based on early clinical evidence.

5 November 2025 Calico

Calico announces FDA orphan drug designation for ADPKD

The designation was granted for ABBV-CLS-628, an anti-PAPP-A antibody developed with AbbVie, which also has Fast Track status and is in Phase 2.

2 October 2025 Calico

Calico announces FDA Fast Track Designation for ADPKD treatment

ABBV-CLS-628, an anti-PAPP-A monoclonal antibody developed with AbbVie, is in Phase 2 trials for ADPKD.

4 February 2025 Calico

Calico introduces PERISCOPE, a new tool for exploring gene function

The approach combines CRISPR and cell imaging to create a genome-wide atlas of cell morphology, enabling scalable study of aging and disease.

Media coverage

12 December 2025 Nature

Calico, Alphabet's anti-ageing play, goes it alone

In 2013, Google launched Calico Life Sciences to develop drugs for the treatment of ageing and age-related diseases. It was an ambitious plan, prompting Time...

22 July 2021 Pharmaphorum

AbbVie, Calico raise their age-related disease alliance funding to $3.5bn

AbbVie and Alphabet spin-out Calico Life Sciences have agreed to fund their seven-year-old partnership seeking treatments for diseases of ageing with another $500 million apiece...

1 August 2018 Business Insider

A collaboration between Google's secretive life-extension spinoff and popular genetics company Ancestry has quietly ended

As is often the case in the world of scientific research partnerships, almost as quickly as a new deal begins, another ends. Popular spit-in-a-tube genetics-testing...

26 June 2018 STAT

Google's aging research spinout Calico gets another $1 billion commitment from Alphabet and AbbVie

AbbVie and Google parent company Alphabet are each committing $500 million to continue funding the scientists researching aging at the ambitious Alphabet unit called Calico...

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