Important step in developing microbiome therapy for severe intestinal dysbiosis.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lyon, France, July 24th, 2015 \u2013 MaaT Pharma, specialist in the gut microbiome restoration area, announces today the closing of its second \u20ac1 million of financing supported by Seventure Partners, a leading European venture capital fund manager. This second funding was obtained after MaaT Pharma completed significant scientific milestones regarding its lead product over the last few months. These \u20ac1 million allows the company to finance its developments until its clinical phase.<\/p>\n Achieving encouraging results in preclinical tests led with INRA laboratories (French National Institute for Agricultural Research), worldwide leader in the microbiome science and therapeutic applications, MaaT Pharma raises another \u20ac1 million to accelerate the development of its autologous intestinal microbiota transplant solution. This round was led by Seventure Partners, which had already invested a first million in December 2014.<\/p>\n MaaT Pharma is developing the first safe and standardized autologous intestinal microbiota transplant solution for hospital use, intended for patients suffering from treatment-induced microbial imbalance (dysbiotic enteropathies). Initially MaaT Pharma will focus on restoring the symbiosis for patients treated for cancer as these treatments are \u201cThe preclinical tests led with our partner INRA these last months have allowed us to determine the optimum conditions for a standardized solution, including the microbiota conservation. This is a major milestone in MaaT Pharma\u2019s development. With the renewed support from Seventure, a trustworthy financial partner with an extensive knowledge of the gut microbiome, MaaT Pharma now has the ability to develop its lead product until the clinical phase starts.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n stated Herv\u00e9 Affagard, CEO of MaaT Pharma.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From now on, MaaT Pharma initiates a further step and is in the process to launch an additional fundraising to finance About the Human Intestinal Microbiome:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Human intestinal microbiota is the name given today to the microbial population living in human intestines. It contains 10 times A balanced gut microbial ecology is essential to the maintenance of health and well-being.<\/p>\n About MaaT Pharma™:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n MaaT Pharma (Microbiota as a Therapy) is a biotechnology company created in 2014 to treat severe diseases related to intestinal microbiota. The company develops the first treatment using an autologous intestinal microbiota transplant. In this first step, MaaT Pharma considers therapeutic applications intended for patients suffering from malignant blood diseases or bones infections and taking heavy treatments fostering dysbiosis. On the long term, the company will develop a therapeutic armament to fight against intestinal dysbiosis. Co-founded by a well-balanced team composed of world-renowned medicals, scientists and entrepreneurs including INRA as well as Seventure Partners, MaaT Pharma\u2019s ambition is to become one of the leaders in intestinal microbiota protection and dysbiosis treatment.<\/p>\n For more information: www.maatpharma.com<\/p>\n <\/p>\n About INRA:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) is a mission-oriented public research institute under the supervision of the French Ministries for Research and Agriculture, and carries out research in the fields of agriculture, food and the environment. As one of the leading agricultural research in the world, INRA maintains scientific partnerships with major scientific research institutes worldwide, universities, agronomy and veterinary schools. For more information: www.inra.fr<\/p>\n <\/p>\n About Seventure Partners:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Seventure Partners is a leading venture capital firm in Europe. Since 1997, Seventure has invested in innovative businesses with high growth potential in digital technologies in France and Germany and in the life sciences field across Europe, with currently over \u20ac500m in assets under management. For more information, please visit: www.seventure.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Important step in developing microbiome therapy for severe intestinal Dysbiosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"category_press":[],"year_press":[55],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communiques-de-presse-fr","year_press-55"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nparticularly aggressive regarding the symbiosis. Treating patients in a safe and efficient way with the proprietary MaaT Pharma solution will also reduce the economic burden of enteropathies and their complications.<\/p>\n
\nthe first phase of its clinical development, in 2016.Notes to Editors<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nmore bacteria than there are human cells in the body and 20 times more genes than there are genes in our genome. It is a complex
\npersonal ecosystem, usually stable, tightly adapted to the host and in constant symbiotic interaction with human cells and organs.
\nThere are nevertheless numerous conditions and clinical practices that impose stress to the balanced microbiota.
\nThe microbiota fulfils key physiological functions:<\/p>\n\n
\nThe Institute carries out fundamental and applied research in microbiology that aims to understand the functioning of microorganisms and microbial ecosystems so that they can be better exploited, mastered or controlled. INRA has taken a leadership role at international level in the field of metagenomics and ecology of the Human microbial ecosystems through numerous projects in that field including the MetaHIT and Cross-talk European projects that INRA coordinated. Within Micalis and its recently created
\nresearch laboratory MetaGenoPolis, INRA scientists now explore the billions of bacteria that inhabit the human intestine to demonstrate that it is possible to protect, restore and graft intestinal bacteria in order to prevent and treat chronic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes or Crohn\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n
\nIn life sciences, the four areas of focus include biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, connected health and medtech, industrial biotechnology and cleantech, and last but not least: the microbiome, nutrition, personalized medicine and food. Seventure Partners also considers investments in the field of diagnostics, biomarkers, drug delivery systems, lifestyle healthcare and services.
\nInvestments can range between \u20ac500k and \u20ac10m per round, or up to \u20ac20m per company, from early to late stage. In December 2013, Seventure Partners successfully launched its \u2018Health for Life Capital\u2019 Fund which attracted strategic investments from prestigious organizations including Danone, Tereos, Tornier, Lesaffre as well as entrepreneurs and financial institutions.
\nSeventure is a subsidiary of Natixis, the corporate investment management and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the secondlargest French bank.<\/p>\n