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Synlogic Therapeutics

BiotechUSAClosed 2024

Total Raised

Undisclosed

Peak Valuation

Undisclosed

Employees

—

Year Collapsed

2024

Business model

Engineered synthetic-biotic bacterial therapies designed to treat rare metabolic diseases.

In brief

Pioneered a genuinely novel therapeutic approach — engineering living bacteria to treat metabolic diseases — with its lead program targeting phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare inherited disorder. When its drug candidate failed to meet its primary endpoint in a pivotal Phase 3 trial in…

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Key facts

Founded
2014
Closed
2024
Headquarters
Cambridge, USA
Industry
Biotech
Employees
—
Revenue
Undisclosed
Founders
Founded by researchers from MIT and Harvard's Wyss Institute

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Often compared with: Moderna, Vertex Pharmaceuticals.