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Siolta: Seeding the microbiome

How Siolta’s bacterial cocktail could prevent the onset of asthma in infants

March 1, 2019 7:26 PM UTC

Backed by Khosla Ventures and about a decade of research connecting the microbiome to allergic diseases, Siolta Therapeutics Inc. has its bacterial cocktail in a Phase I trial to prevent the onset of asthma in newborns along with a companion diagnostic for the disease.

Siolta co-founders Susan Lynch and Nikole Kimes met when Kimes joined Lynch’s lab as a postdoc at University of California San Francisco, where Lynch is an assistant professor of medicine...