Vedanta partners with NYU Langone on microbiome-derived immunotherapies

11 August 2016

USA-based microbiome company Vedanta Biosciences has entered into a partnership with New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center to develop microbiome-derived immunotherapies for cancer patients being treated with checkpoint inhibitors, it has been announced.

The collaboration seeks to leverage Vedanta’s portfolio of immune activating microbial cocktails for use in standalone immunotherapy and in combination with checkpoint inhibitors.

Vedanta, founded by PureTech Health, will work with a group of oncologists led by renowned melanoma and immunotherapy expert and deputy director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone, Jeffrey S Weber.

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