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The trillions of microbes that call us home – the human microbiome – perform critical functions that preserve our health including helping develop our immune system, manufacturing nutrients such as vitamins, and harvesting energy from the diet. Alterations of the human microbiome are increasingly recognized as a key factor in autoimmune, metabolic, infectious and many other diseases. For millions of years, humans have co-evolved with this community of microbes, communicating in an ancient language that holds critical clues about how autoimmune and infectious diseases develop. This language is based on a system of signals that our resident microbes use to successfully colonize us, such as byproducts of bacterial metabolism and factors that bacteria use to adapt to human niches. Recent discoveries have shown that most of these signals do not lead to disease, rather, they promote our long-term survival. Vedanta Biosciences is developing an innovative class of therapies that modulate pathways of interaction between the human microbiome and the host immune system. Vedanta Biosciences was co-founded by PureTech and a group of world renowned experts in immunology and microbiology.
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Plexxikon is a Berkeley, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Project Farma is a patient-focused global leader in advancing technical operations from ideation through commercialization with a proven track record of planning, building, and maintaining manufacturing facilities, capital expansions, and technical operations for complex biologics and novel modalities. We provide end-to-end services for the entire manufacturing lifecycle for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, universities, hospitals, and government agencies. Project Farma has executed 100+ facility builds, retrofits and expansions, managed 400+ large scale capital projects, industrialized 10+ commercial cell, gene, and novel therapies, and managed $6B+ in technical operations capital investments. One of our core values is giving back. Volunteering at hospitals, supporting life science related fundraisers and partnering with nonprofit organizations is an integral part of our culture. In doing so, not only do we raise awareness of many life-threatening diseases, but we also bring our team and our clients team closer to the actual patients and families that will be impacted by our work. Project Farma is a PerkinElmer company. (https://www.projectfarma.com/)
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