About Siwa Bioworks
We transform knowledge into effective solutions.
Biology already knows how to solve most of what we're still trying to fix by hand. It's been running these experiments for billions of years, turning sunlight into food, bacteria into medicine, decay into fertile soil.
At Siwa Bioworks, we read that work with sequencing and bioinformatics, direct it with artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, and scale it with precision fermentation. The result: real solutions for health, nutrition, food, and agriculture, for people, animals, and the land they depend on.
01 — What we do
Four units, one platform
Siwa Bioactives finds and produces bioactive compounds, from functional mushrooms like Reishi and Lion's Mane to fermentation-built bioactives, for human health, animal nutrition, and wellness.
Siwa GutLab is where we prove it. Seven years of microbiome data. 6,954 samples. Over 55,000 bacterial strains catalogued. What we claim about a product's effect on an animal's gut comes from a farm, not a lab estimate.
Siwa Probiotics turns that science into UORA®, our first product to market, a three-strain Bacillus probiotic for poultry, swine, and shrimp, protected by intellectual property, validated in the field.
Siwa Phages develops bacteriophage-based solutions. These are viruses that target bacteria with precision, built for pathogen and resistance challenges antibiotics can't solve alone.
We work as a partner, not a vendor, alongside companies and producers who want products backed by evidence.
02 — Research Triangle
Deep knowledge. Science and technology.
Siwa is based in the Research Triangle, a region three universities have spent decades shaping into one of the country's leading centers of life-science research: NC State, recognized for agriculture, animal science, and biotechnology; and Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, both anchors of medical and life-science research. Together, they form what people here call the Knowledge Triangle.
Our Innovation Lab is located on Person Street in Durham, and our production takes place at Protein Arc. Through master research agreements with these universities, we gain early access to emerging research and sponsor studies of our own, including an animal science research consortium at NC State. This ecosystem is exactly where the science behind UORA originated.
03 — A Member of Iluma Alliance
A knowledge company.
Siwa didn't start from zero. It was incubated inside Iluma Innovation Labs, the R&D arm of Iluma Alliance, formed in 2015 to bring together businesses built on more than 40 years of animal nutrition experience. What's new is the name. What isn't is the depth behind it.
Iluma is a vertically integrated ecosystem of 8 business units, all working toward the same purpose: nurturing well-being to enhance life. That purpose isn't a line we borrowed for a website. It shapes how the alliance operates, backed by life sciences and applied research, and by a culture that values curiosity as much as results.
Today, Iluma is 1,000+ people across 64 countries, 13 manufacturing plants, 3 chemical and biomolecular labs, and 3 experimental farms. That work reaches 568 million lives every day. Being part of that network means we rarely start from scratch. Somewhere in the alliance, someone has usually already spent years studying the question we're asking.
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