Shutdown
Dec 2024Stopped distributing investigational donor FMT material after the FDA ended enforcement discretion, ending the stool-bank distribution model.
SourceA nonprofit stool bank enabling access to fecal transplants.
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Overview
OpenBiome Foundation is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that pioneered the first public stool bank in the U.S. and now focuses on expanding access to microbiome therapies, funding microbiome research, and sharing open-access tools/resources for patient care and discovery.
Primary product
Screened fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) material and microbiome research/access programs
Founded
2012
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
Microbiome therapeutics / fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) / stool bank
Offices
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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