NESS ZIONA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BiomX Inc. (NYSE: PHGE), a microbiome company developing both natural and engineered phage therapies that target specific pathogenic bacteria, today disclosed pre-clinical data from its acne program, originally planned to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) on March 20, 2020 before the conference was canceled due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic concerns. The pre-clinical data can be found on the AAD’s website as well as the Company’s website.
BiomX is developing BX001, its lead product candidate, to modify the appearance of acne prone skin. BX001 is a topically administered gel comprised of a cocktail of naturally occurring phage targeting Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes), a bacterium implicated in the pathophysiology of acne vulgaris. The pre-clinical data disclosed include in vitro results demonstrating BX001’s activity against C. acnes, including antibiotic resistant clinical isolates of C. acnes, and BX001’s ability to penetrate biofilm, a matrix secreted by the bacteria which makes them less accessible to antibiotics. Phase 1 data from a cosmetic clinical study of BX001 in acne prone skin are expected by the end of the first quarter of 2020.
About Phage
Bacteriophage, or phage, are viruses that target bacteria and are considered inert to mammalian cells. Phage are designed to target and kill specific bacterial species or strains without disrupting other bacteria or the healthy microbiota. All of BiomX’s phage-based product candidates derive from its proprietary platform, which is first used to discover and validate the association of specific bacterial strains with human diseases or conditions, and is then used to develop rationally-designed phage combinations (“cocktails”) of naturally occurring or synthetic phage to target pathogenic bacteria. The phage cocktails contain multiple phage with complementary functions optimized through in vitro and in vivo testing.
About BiomX
BiomX is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing both natural and engineered phage cocktails designed to target and destroy bacteria that affect the appearance of skin, as well as harmful bacteria in chronic diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and colorectal cancer (CRC). BiomX discovers and validates proprietary bacterial targets and customizes phage compositions against these targets.
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