Infant Bacterial Therapeutics’ (IBT) efforts to develop a drug to prevent the
fatal disease necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) has proceeded faster than planned
and the company will already in 2015 prepare a study on the safety and tolerance
of the product. According to the original plan, the study was scheduled to start
in 2016.
To allow for the earlier study start, BioGaia will supply IBT with an additional
520 000 US dollars.
In November 2013 the Board of BioGaia decided to invest up to SEK 42 million in
a first phase of a long-term project aimed at developing a drug with very high
requirements on hygiene, analysis and documentation, to prevent the fatal
disease necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), that affects premature infants. The
project is run by BioGaia's subsidiary Infant Bacterial Therapeutics (IBT).
IBT has been granted Orphan Drug Designation for the prevention of NEC in Europe
and the USA, has had consultations with the FDA and the EMA and has progressed
far in the development of the production process of the product.
Before any clinical studies will be conducted the financial requirements of IBT
needs to be met through external financing. Efforts to find a suitable
cooperation partner have been initiated with a bank in London.
"With this additional limited funding from BioGaia we gain valuable time and
thereby increasing the value of the project," says Peter Rothschild, President,
BioGaia.
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BioGaia has published this information in accordance with the Swedish Securities
Market Act. The information was issued for publication on 26 March 2015, 08:30
am CET.
For additional information please contact
Peter Rothschild, Chief Executive Officer, BioGaia: 46 8 555 293 00
BioGaia is a healthcare company that develops, markets and sells probiotic
products with documented health benefits. The products are primarily based on
the lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri, which has probiotic, health
-enhancing effects. The class B share of the Parent Company BioGaia AB is quoted
on the Mid Cap list of the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm. www.biogaia.com
