YSOPIA Bioscience secures €1.55M in non-dilutive funding from Bpifrance and the European Regional Development Fund

• Bpifrance renews its support for YSOPIA through its Innovation Development Funding (Aide pour le développement de l’innovation) program

• The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) supports YSOPIA through France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region

Bordeaux (France), November 16, 2020 – YSOPIA Bioscience, a French biotech company harnessing the properties of keystone single-strain bacteria to develop groundbreaking microbiome-based biotherapies, today announced that it has received funding approval from Bpifrance and the European Regional Development Fund through Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region for a total of €1.55M. This new funding will help drive YSOPIA’s biotherapeutics pipeline forward.

The company will receive €0.75M in funding from Bpifrance and a €0.8M grant from the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region as part of an EU program to support regional competitiveness (ERDF). This funding will be used to advance the clinical development of the company’s lead biotherapy, Xla1, targeting obesity and associated metabolic diseases, and to support the preclinical development of another candidate addressing inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). YSOPIA received initial funding from Bpifrance and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region in 2019.

“We are very grateful to Bpifrance and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region for their lasting, long-term support. Our regional ecosystem is very active in fostering innovative projects, and our approach in developing single-strain keystone bacteria as biotherapies addressing chronic diseases is a cutting-edge innovation. With our entry into the clinical phase, we have moved one step closer to becoming a world-leading biotech in the development of game-changing microbiome-based biotherapies,” said Georges Rawadi, CEO of YSOPIA Bioscience.

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NewCap, Press Relations
Arthur Rouillé
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YSOPIA Bioscience, Corporate Communication
Caroline Bernard
caroline.bernard@ysopia.bio