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As part of the asset acquisition, Kanvas Biosciences will advance two core initiatives that improve the treatment of prevalent diseases: Immuno-oncology program and Inflammatory Bowel Disease program.
The collaboration will join MD Anderson's expertise and capabilities with Fed Bio's proprietary ACT bacterial cell therapy platform to design and manufacture a complex, synthetic microbiome-based therapy.
FB-001 is an investigational, oral therapy consisting of 148 bacterial strains isolated from multiple healthy donors. It is the first rationally designed complex consortium at this scale to enter clinical studies.
Federation Bio will use proceeds from the financing to build out its in-house development process to enable Phase 1/2 manufacturing and advance its lead program into the clinic.