SNIPR Biome Launches A Non-Profit Patent Licensing Program

SNIPR Biome Launches A Non-Profit Patent Licensing Program To Enable The Field of CRISPR Editing in Prokaryotes

Copenhagen, October 03, 2022: SNIPR Biome ApS (“SNIPR” or “the Company”), a company pioneering CRISPR-based microbial gene therapy, announces that its patent portfolio covering the use of CRISPR/Cas systems to edit prokaryotes is now available for academic and non-profit research use without a written license.

SNIPR has developed a technology platform that uses CRISPR/Cas to precisely target and edit prokaryotes, such as bacteria. The Company has an extensive patent portfolio which contains more than 20 granted patents in the US and Europe. The portfolio broadly covers fundamental scopes protecting the use of CRISPR to combat infectious disease pathogens, modulate therapy outcomes (such as for oncology and immunology) and add new gene functions to human and animal microbiomes.   These technologies underpin SNIPR’s broad R&D pipeline which addresses the unmet needs of high-risk patient groups. SNIPR’s lead program (SNIPR001), a CRISPR-armed bacteriophage cocktail that targets antibiotic-resistant E. coli infections in hematological cancer patients, is currently in the clinic in the US undergoing Phase I trials. This experimental medicine is the first orally dosed CRISPR-based therapeutic candidate.

SNIPR is committed to enabling and fueling the development of innovative therapies using the technologies covered by its patent estate. To this end, SNIPR is making its technologies available to third parties for research purposes. For non-commercial academic and non-profit use, no written license to SNIPR’s CRISPR tools, methods, or other intellectual property is necessary. More information about SNIPR’s patent estate, can be found at https://www.sniprbiome.com/snipr-biome-ip.

Dr Christian Grøndahl, Co-founder and CEO of SNIPR Biome, commented: “As part of our commitment to patients with life-threatening diseases, we want to ensure…