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Exploring The Gut-Brain Axis: New Biotech Kallyope

 
• By Lubna Ahmed

The end of 2015 saw the emergence of a new biotech company, Kallyope, with a focus on the gut-brain axis.

The end of 2015 saw the emergence of a new biotech company, Kallyope, with a focus on the gut-brain axis.

The biotech fledgling, based in New York, launched in December 2015 with $44m in cash raised via a series A financing round, and was founded by Charles Zuker, Tom Maniatis and Richard Axel from Columbia University, whose scientific expertise includes gene cloning and neuroscientific and genetic research into sensory processes, including smell, vision and taste

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