Exeliom Biosciences

Exeliom Biosciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company specialized in the development of microbiome-based immunotherapies with a mission to bring innovation to the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, cancer, and infectious diseases. Its lead asset, EXL01, a rationally selected, oral biotherapeutic product, is in clinical development for the treatment of Crohn’s disease and will soon also be evaluated in three immuno-oncology combination trials and in a recurrent C. difficile infection trial.

The Company was founded in 2016 in Paris and Dijon (France) by a renowned scientific team consisting of Prof. Harry Sokol (Professor of Gastroenterology, Saint Antoine Hospital in Paris), Dr. Philippe Langella (Research Director at INRAe) and Prof. Patrick Gervais (Professor of Process Engineering at AgroSup) who were the first to demonstrate and publish as of 2008 the properties of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii.