Adapsyn Bioscience Completes Financing to Advance its Small Molecule Natural Product Platform and Pipeline; Announces Research Collaboration with Pfizer Inc.

Natural products are organic biomolecules produced by nature and, particularly those produced by microbiota, represent a rich source of evolutionarily optimized biologically active molecules. The Adapsyn platform combines genomic and metabolomic data with artificial intelligence and machine-learning to identify novel, mechanistically diverse evolved small molecules from human and environmental microbiomes. The financing will support the company's internal drug development programs. "We are excited to apply our platform to unlock the unique targeting capacity of these evolved compounds and realize new therapeutics," commented Nathan Magarvey, PhD, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Adapsyn. "Recent technological advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and large-scale genomic and metabolomic analysis are reenergizing the field of natural product drug development, and Adapsyn is excited to be at the forefront of this work."