Dr. Joël Doré, MaaT Pharma’s co-founder, received awards for his work

Date : May 18, 2018

Dr. Joël Doré, MaaT Pharma’s co-founder, received awards for his work

 

Created in the end of December 2014, MaaT Pharma, a microbiome specialized biotech, aims to be the leader in Microbiotherapy.
We work on reconstructing the entire gut ecosystem using autologous and allogenic Fecal Microbiota Transfer, and we are targeting severe iatrogenic dysbiosis (intestinal
microbiota imbalance). Since its inception, MaaT Pharma benefited from the work on 30+ years of microbiota research led by Inra (one of MaaT Pharma investors as well as a world leader in research on human Gut Microbiota) and Dr. Joël Doré, a world expert on intestinal microbiota who also happens to be one of our cofounders.

Our combination of unprecedented scientific and medical expertise (Dr. Joël Doré and Pr. Mohamad Mohty) and our unique proprietary technology has allowed us to move fast, and today we are one of the few companies in the clinical phase II development in the field of microbiota. MaaT Pharma is currently developing innovative treatments for unmet medical needs in hematology- oncology, infectious diseases, and immune diseases such as GvHD.

 

Dr. Joël Doré has received several awards for his outstanding work

Today, we are extremely proud to announce that Dr. Doré, who has been by our side since the very beginning, has received two awards to honor his work.

On November 20th, 2017, he received the Inra Lifetime Achievement Award during the 12th INRA Awards ceremony. Each year, the Inra Awards honor the creativity, talent, and commitment of INRA researchers, engineers, and technicians. As stated by Dr. Doré,

“In the years to come, (my) goal is to conduct a more detailed exploration of the microbiota and to develop tools for personalizing preventive nutrition and medical treatments.”

“Autism and many other chronic clinical indications have in common an altered symbiosis characterized by severely disrupted microbiome facing a low grade to acute inflammatory tone. Current therapies only tackle symptoms while microbiotherapy, as developed by MaaT Pharma, could open the perspective to fully restore symbiosis, leverage microbiota’s capacity to mitigate inflammation and thereby provide long term remission”.

said Joël Doré.

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Acting Chief Scientific Officer

Sheri Simmons

Sheri Simmons, Ph.D., is Acting Chief Scientific Officer at MaaT Pharma. Sheri brings extensive experience in biotechnology, particularly in the microbiome field, having held scientific leadership positions at Seres Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson’s Microbiome Solutions team, and most recently at Seed Health, a leading probiotics company. In her role, she strengthens the Company’s scientific leadership, overseeing preclinical research, AI/data initiatives, and supporting efforts toward the Marketing Authorization Application of Xervyteg® in aGvHD.

Sheri holds a PhD in Biological Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed an A.B. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and as a Phi Beta Kappa member, receiving one of six awards for the best senior thesis in the sciences. Sheri holds a PhD in Biological Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed an A.B. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and as a Phi Beta Kappa member, receiving one of six awards for the best senior thesis in the sciences.

CEO and co-founder

Hervé Affagard

Hervé Affagard is the CEO and co-founder of MaaT Pharma. For the past 15 years, Hervé has been an intra/entrepreneur in the healthcare industry, after starting his career in IT in the steel industry. In late 2014, Hervé co-founded the company alongside Dr. Joël Doré, author of nearly 500 publications, and
one of the world’s most cited authors in the microbiome sphere today, after a professional career that spanned multiple industries. Hervé has led MaaT Pharma’s development from its early concept in 2013 and has been at the forefront of the development of the microbiome healthcare ecosystem in France and Europe. In January 2022, Hervé has been elected President of Allliance Promotion Microbiote, an organization founded in 2021 to support the microbiome sector development in France.

Engineer, MBA