Synthetic Biologics Inc.'s CEO Jeff Riley talks about why the biopharma industry is interested now in the greater use of microbiome-focused techniques within drug R&D. He also highlights challenges within this research space and what to look out for from Synthetic Biologics in 2018.
Synthetic Biologics CEO On Pipeline Advances And The Microbiome
Scrip senior editor Lucie Ellis speaks to Jeff Riley, president and CEO of Synthetic Biologics, on the sidelines of the recent BIO-Europe partnering conference in Berlin about how the company is harnessing the microbiome to develop two late-stage therapeutics.
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