Progenity, Inc. announced the formation of its Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Advisory Board. The advisory board includes respected researchers and clinicians who are thought leaders in the research and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The advisory board will provide clinical and strategic guidance on Progenity’s ingestible therapeutics and diagnostics pipeline, as the company transitions from preclinical to clinical studies. Dr. William Sandborn will chair the board, which includes Dr. Geert D’Haens, Dr. Bruce Sands, and Dr. Séverine Vermeire. Dr. William Sandborn is Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and is the Chief Medical Officer of Shoreline Biosciences. Dr. Geert D’Haens is Professor of Gastroenterology at the Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam, where he leads the IBD Unit. Currently, Dr. D’Haens leads a group of more than 35 IBD researchers in the AMC. He is also Medical Director of Robarts Clinical Trials in Europe and former chairman of IOIBD Dr. Bruce Sands is the Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Dr. Séverine Vermeire is Head of the Department of Chronic Diseases & Metabolism (CHROMETA) at the KU Leuven.
Biora Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company, which is focused on creating smart pills designed for targeted drug delivery to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and systemic, needle-free delivery of biotherapeutics. The Companyâs pipeline includes two therapeutic delivery platforms: NaviCap and BioJet. The NaviCap, targeted oral delivery platform, which is designed to improve outcomes for patients with inflammatory bowel disease through treatment at the site of disease in the gastrointestinal tract. The BioJet, systemic oral delivery platform, which is designed to replace injection for better management of chronic diseases through needle-free, oral delivery of large molecules. It has two demonstration drug-device combination programs for the BioJet platform, BT-200 (GLP-1 receptor agonist) and BT-002 (adalimumab variant). Its other two programs include BT-600 (NaviCap + tofacitinib) and BT-001 (NaviCap + variant of adalimumab) for the treatment of ulcerative colitis.
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