The global human microbiome market is expected to
witness significant growth due to increasing awareness towards healthy
lifestyle, increasing demand for safe and effective medication, high number of
patients with gastrointestinal diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, obesity
and cancer. The regulatory bodies are supporting the growth of market by providing
designations and grants for speeding up the drug development process. Orphan
drug designation and breakthrough therapy designation was given to RBX2660, a
Rebiotix Inc. drug candidate and SER-109, a Seres Therapeutics Inc. drug
candidate for the treatment of clostridium difficile infection. In January 2016,
a grant was awarded to Epibiome from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for
microbiome.
Microbiome
refers to the collection of microbes and their interaction with the human
body. It plays an important role in
human physiology and disease. The microbes and their interaction with the human
body show the various aspects of human biology. Human body possesses number of
different species, particularly bacteria and fungi which help in digesting
food, preventing infections, and to perform numerous life-supporting tasks.
Microbiome and metagenome have important functions in health and disease of
human and their exploration would help to further explore large information in
human genetics.
Some of the key
players operating in the global market are Synthetic Biologics, Inc., Enterome
Bioscience S.A., Vedanta Biosciences, Inc., Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., C3 Jian,
Inc., ViThera Pharmaceuticals Inc., Second Genome Inc., MicroBiome Therapeutics
LLC, AOBiome, LLC, Rebiotix, Inc., and Metabiomics Corporation.