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Vedanta Phase II Data Position It To Chase Seres In C. Difficile Recurrence

 
• By Joseph Haas

Vedanta thinks its live biotherapeutic sourced from clonal cell banking could offer strong prevention against C. difficile infections after antibiotics have cleared an initial infection.

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Vedanta thinks its live biotherapeutic can prevent infection recurrence

Chasing Seres Therapeutics, Inc. for the first microbiome product approval, Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. reported on 5 October that its live biotherapeutic product VE303 has succeeded in a Phase II study preventing recurrence of Clostridium difficile infections and is ready to move into Phase III in 2022. On the news of the successful Phase II study, the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) exercised a contract option to provide $23.8m to fund the Phase III study.

After clinical setbacks in 2017, Seres rebounded in 2020 with positive Phase III data for SER-109 –comprised of highly purified...

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