The milestone is for the identification of candidates meeting the predefined lead compound criteria, and follows the initial milestone achieved in December 2023.
Engineered probiotics, mainly bacterial probiotics, are an emerging platform for in situ delivery of therapeutics, including anticancer therapies, to the gut. Writing in Cell Chemical Biology, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine and collaborators present a novel yeast-based therapeutic oral platform to deliver next-generation immune checkpoint inhibitor proteins directly to gastrointestinal tumors.
Taipei, Taiwan- and Watertown, Mass.-based Syncell recently raised $15 million in series A financing to advance its subcellular protein purification and spatial proteomics analysis product called Microscoop Mint, based on its Microscoop platform technology.
