Partnerships

Industry Partnerships

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Bristol Myers Squibb, Inc.

We have a clinical trial collaboration agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb for our bacterial consortia drug candidate for Immune-Oncology VE800.

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA)

Vedanta has been awarded a development grant from BARDA to advance VE303 through clinical and regulatory development for CDI. The contract provides for reimbursement of up to $81.9 million, subject to additional prespecified milestones being achieved and the availability of funding. BARDA has exercised its first option under this partnership to support a Phase 3 clinical trial of VE303.

CARB-X

Vedanta has been awarded two research grants from CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) to support the development of VE303, the Company’s product candidate for the treatment of high-risk C. difficile infection (CDI) and VE707, Vedanta’s preclinical discovery program for the prevention of infection and recurrence of several MDROs, including carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), extended-spectrum beta lactamase producers (ESBL), and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE).

JSR Corporation

We have a collaboration agreement with JSR to develop next-generation manufacturing techniques for live biotherapeutic products.

Academic Collaborations

Academic Collaborations

Leiden University Medical Center

We have entered into a clinical translational medicine collaboration with Leiden University Medical Center that focuses on collection of samples from healthy donors as well as clinical data and/or interventional studies of fecal transplantation in a variety of indications.

Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal

We have entered into a translational collaboration with CHUM focused on understanding the microbiome of cancer patients being treated with checkpoint inhibitors.

NYU Langone Medical Center

We have entered into a translational collaboration with the NYU Langone Medical Center focused on developing novel microbiome-derived immunotherapies for cancer patients being treated with checkpoint inhibitors.

Hôpital Raymond Poincaré

We have entered into a translational collaboration with Hôpital Raymond Poincaré focused on the development of microbiome-based therapeutics for multi-drug resistant organisms.

Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology

We have entered into a translational medicine collaboration with VHIO to understand how the microbiome of cancer patients influences responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

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