Founding Stories: SynthBiome

After decades working in microbiology and advising biopharmaceutical companies on how to better screen pipeline therapeutics for human use, Marvin realized a big problem existed with inadequate mouse and test tube models. “Simply put, mice are not humans and test tubes are not humans,” Marvin states.  “What is needed is a “bacterial gatorade” to mimic human physiology in test tubes.”  After spending a decade getting microbe data in humans, Marvin used this benchmark data to develop a microbe test tube model for use in biopharmaceutical R&D.