Jacques Ravel, via Ravel Lab

Biotech start­up joins quest to har­ness mi­cro­bio­me to un­teth­er re­liance on an­tibi­otics in wom­en's health

Har­ness­ing da­ta gath­ered as part of the Na­tion­al In­sti­tutes of Health (NIH) Hu­man Mi­cro­bio­me Project, the co-ed­i­tor-in-chief of the jour­nal Mi­cro­bio­me, Jacques Rav­el, has formed a biotech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny fo­cused on women’s health.

The com­pa­ny, chris­tened Lu­ca Bi­o­log­ics, has leaned on 15 years of Rav­el’s vagi­nal mi­cro­bio­me re­search to de­vel­op a pipeline of ther­a­peu­tics de­signed to treat uri­nary tract in­fec­tions (UTI), preterm birth and bac­te­r­i­al vagi­nosis.

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