Stockwatch: The Fall, Rise And Challenges Of Seres' Microbiome Therapy

A Stunning Reversal Of Fortune Still Poses Crucial Challenges For Seres

The public biotech’s first foray into the microbiome started well, but a clinical trial failure followed by a success has now left Seres with both regulatory and commercial issues.    

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ANDY SMITH OFFERS A LIFE SCIENCE INVESTOR'S PERSPECTIVE ON BIOPHARMA BUSINESS

Seres Therapeutics, Inc.’s single positive Phase III study for its first microbiome product, SAR-109, following as it did a failed Phase II trial, may have put a different complexion on its imminent biologic license application filing to the US Food and Drug Administration, but traditional safety, regulatory and commercial hurdles remain.

Seres Therapeutics emerged as the summer 2015 biotech bubble burst with the aim of developing the first approved microbiome drug....

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