MetaboGen AB receives 4.9 MSEK for development of pharmaceutical products based on the microbiome
MetaboGen AB – a Swedish microbiome company – has been granted 4.9 MSEK by Sweden´s Innovation Agency, VINNOVA, for development of production- and formulation technologies for pharmaceutical products, based on bacterial strains isolated from the human gut.The human intestinal tract is inhabited by 10-100 trillion of microbes comprised of thousands of different species, collectively called the microbiota. This microbial community has an immense capacity to affect host biology and imbalance in the gut microbiome is today associated with multiple diseases and unhealthy conditions. The