MaaT Pharma to Announce Clinical Data with its Lead Microbiota Biotherapeutic in Intestinal Acute GvHD at Virtual 46th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT)

Date : August 28, 2020

— Data from the Company’s compassionate use program with MaaT013 as a treatment in patients with intestinal acute Graft-versus-Host-Disease will be highlighted in an e-poster presentation —

— MaaT013 is an enema formulation of a microbiota biotherapeutic characterized by a high diversity and consistent richness of microbial species derived from pooled healthy donors —

— Results will be announced on Monday, August 31 —

Lyon, France, August 28, 2020 – MaaT Pharma announced today that clinical data from 11 patients treated with the company’s lead microbiome restoration biotherapeutic, MaaT013, will be presented in an e-poster at the 46th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) to be held virtually from August 29 – September 1, 2020. MaaT013 is an enema formulation of a microbiota biotherapeutic characterized by a consistent richness of microbial species derived from pooled healthy donors to treat patients with intestinal acute Graft-versus-Host-Disease (aGvHD) following allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation (allo-HSCT). MaaT Pharma provided MaaT013 to hospitals as part of its compassionate use program for patients who had previously received and failed up to five previous systemic treatments for GvHD. MaaT Pharma will announce the results through a press release on Monday, August 31, 2020.

 

As the event is held virtually this year, the presentation will take the form of an e-poster with commentary. The abstract of the presentation is available using the following link, https://www.professionalabstracts.com/ebmt2020/iPlanner/#/presentation/5171.

 

e-Poster presentation details:

Title: Successful and Safe Treatment of Intestinal Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GvHD) with Pooled-Donor Full Ecosystem Microbiota Biotherapeutics

Session Name: e-Experimental Transplantation

Date/Time: Saturday, August 29, 2020 / 12:30 PM – 06:30 PM CET

Location: e-Poster area

After the e-presentation, MaaT Pharma will provide the poster on the company website under “News”.

In addition to the compassionate use program, MaaT Pharma is currently investigating MaaT013 in a multi-center, single-arm, open-label, Phase II clinical trial called HERACLES to evaluate the safety and efficacy of MaaT013 in gastrointestinal-predominant, steroid-refactory, acute GvHD (GI SR-aGvHD) patients (NCT03359980). The acute form of GvHD is a serious, often fatal syndrome typically involving the gut, skin and liver. MaaT Pharma has established the most complete approach to restoring patient-microbiome symbiosis in the gut to improve efficacy of cancer treatments and survival outcomes in life-threatening diseases. MaaT013 has been granted Orphan Drug Designation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

About MaaT Pharma

MaaT Pharma, a clinical stage company, has established the most complete approach to restoring patient-microbiome symbiosis to improve survival outcomes in life-threatening diseases. Committed to treating cancer and graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), a serious complication of allogeneic stem cell transplantation, MaaT Pharma has already achieved proof of concept in acute myeloid leukemia patients and a Phase 2 clinical trial in acute GvHD is ongoing. Supporting the further expansion of our pipeline into larger indications, we have built a powerful discovery and analysis platform, GutPrint®, to evaluate drug candidates, determine novel disease targets and identify biomarkers for microbiome-related conditions. Our therapeutics are produced through a standardized cGMP manufacturing and quality control process to safely deliver the full diversity of the microbiome. MaaT Pharma benefits from the commitment of world-leading scientists and established relationships with regulators to spearhead microbiome treatment integration into clinical practice.

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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.

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