BiomX in-licenses novel bacterial targets for IBD treatment

30 January 2018

Israeli microbiome company BiomX has exclusively sub-licensed from JSR Corp (TYO: 4185) a set of bacterial targets for the development and commercialization of phage therapies that eradicate these targets, as a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

These targets, discovered by Dr Kenya Honda, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Keio University School of Medicine, were shown to be pro-inflammatory and may have a role in the onset and aggravation of IBD. The findings were recently published in Science magazine.

Although no financial terms of the accord were revealed, JSR’s shares were up 12.7% at 2,645 yen by close of Japanese trading today.

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