Lund­beck fund backs a $50M launch round for SNIPR Bio­me, a new brand of CRISPR Cas biotech

The ear­ly-stage ven­ture arm for the Lund­beck Foun­da­tion has launched a biotech start­up that has set sail on the vast mi­cro­bio­me sea. The new com­pa­ny — SNIPR Bio­me — plans to ad­vance its CRISPR Cas tech to prune tar­get­ed bac­te­ria. And the biotech has its eye on go­ing in­to hu­mans in 2021 as it starts to tack­le a wide va­ri­ety of tar­gets that could be in­flu­enced by a tai­lored im­mune sys­tem re­sponse.

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