Tiny Startup Spyryx Looks to One-Up Vertex Pharmaceuticals (MA) With One-Size-Fits-All Cystic Fibrosis Therapy

Cystic fibrosis has become the poster child for precision medicine – most new therapies are carefully tailored to a CF patient’s genetic makeup. University of North Carolina spinout Spyryx Biosciences is proposing a one-size-fits-all approach to the disease: It’s developing a peptide-based therapy that, in theory, could be effective among all CF patients.

This startup’s in the earliest of stages – it’s still pre-IND, and only beginning to emerge from stealth mode. The underlying research comes from University of North Carolina School of Medicine researcher Robert Tarran.

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