Joanna Albala, a senior biomedical scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, said her lab’s new partnership with proteomics company Phylos is the outcome of “a true networking opportunity” at last year’s Chips to Hits meeting in Philadelphia. It was there that executives from Phylos, a Lexington, Mass., developer of protein binders, happened to be on the lookout for a collaborator that could custom deliver target proteins. Albala sat down next to one of them during a luncheon in the exhibit hall.