Applying Scientific Rigor To Microbiome Therapeutics

PharmaBiome’s Second-Generation Candidates

Tomas de Wouters, one of In Vivo’s 2020 Rising Leaders, has taken on the complex challenge of the microbiome, aiming to design the next generation of microbiome therapeutic candidates targeted at host-microbial interactions. 

Microbiome_Analysis
• Source: Shutterstock

Translating a better understanding of the microbiome, the large mass of micro-organisms that we all carry around in our gastrointestinal (GI) tract, our skin and elsewhere, into beneficial therapeutic products is proving to be a long and painstaking process. Still, it is one that may be attractive to researchers with a background in complex systems and processes.

That is according to Tomas de Wouters, co-founder and CEO of the five-year-old Swiss start-up, PharmaBiome, and one of In...

More from Innovation

More from In Vivo