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Synthetic Biologics CEO On Pipeline Advances And The Microbiome

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

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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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, a clinical company based in the US, has two drug candidates in development – ribaxamase and SYN-010 –...

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