Optibiotix Health Plc (LON:OPTI) CEO Stephen O’Hara caught up with DirectorsTalk to talk about the JV with DSM. Stephen expands on the agreement details, explains the types of products involved and how this fits in with Optibiotix’s overall strategy.
Royal DSM is a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials. By connecting its unique competences in life sciences and materials sciences DSM is driving economic prosperity, environmental progress and social advances to create sustainable value for all stakeholders simultaneously. DSM delivers innovative solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance in global markets such as food and dietary supplements, personal care, feed, medical devices, automotive, paints, electrical and electronics, life protection, alternative energy and bio-based materials. DSM and its associated companies deliver annual net sales of about €10 billion with approximately 25,000 employees. The company is listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
OptiBiotix Health Plc was formed in March 2012 to develop compounds which modify the human microbiome – the collective genome of the microbes in the body – to prevent and manage human disease. The aim of OptiBiotix is to discover and develop microbial strains, compounds and formulations, which modulate the human microbiome and can be used as food ingredients and supplements or active compounds for the prevention and management of human diseases, examples of which include obesity, cholesterol and lipid distribution, diabetes, and skin health.
OptiBiotix Health Plc has established a pipeline of microbiome modulators that can impact on lipid and cholesterol management, energy harvest, appetite suppression, and skin health. The development pipeline is fuelled by its proprietary OptiScreen® and OptiBiotic® platform technologies designed to identify metabolic pathways and compounds that impact on human physiology and bring potential health benefits. These platforms are applicable across a wider range of other human diseases.
