IP Pragmatics Microbiome White Paper June 2017
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JUNE 2017 EXPLOITING THE MICROBIOME: MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LANDSCAPE Primary Authors: Scott McKellar, Kyriakos Tzafestas & Sophie Brayne Sector Lead: Ronnie Georghiou IP Pragmatics Limited London | Edinburgh | Sydney www.ip-pragmatics.com 2 | P a g e CONTENTS Contents ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Executive Summary .................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 5 Market Overview ...................................................................................................................... 10 Human Health and Wellbeing .............................................................................................. 10 Therapeutics ..................................................................................................................... 13 Food & Nutrition ............................................................................................................... 17 Diagnostics ........................................................................................................................ 18 Animal Health ....................................................................................................................... 23 Sustainable Farming ......................................................................................................... 24 Animal Health and Welfare .............................................................................................. 25 Enzyme Discovery ............................................................................................................. 26 Livestock Productivity ....................................................................................................... 27 Plants and Agriculture .......................................................................................................... 28 Food Production & Food Security .................................................................................... 28 Deals ......................................................................................................................................... 31 Human Health and Wellbeing .............................................................................................. 31 Animal Health ....................................................................................................................... 33 Plants and Agriculture .......................................................................................................... 34 Pipeline ..................................................................................................................................... 36 Key Players................................................................................................................................ 37 Human Health and Wellbeing .............................................................................................. 39 4D Pharma ........................................................................................................................ 41 Enterome Bioscience ........................................................................................................ 42 Evelo Biosciences .............................................................................................................. 43 Second Genome ............................................................................................................... 44 Seres Therapeutics ........................................................................................................... 45 Synlogic ............................................................................................................................. 46 Vedanta Biosciences ......................................................................................................... 47 Research Landscape ......................................................................................................... 48 Animal Health ....................................................................................................................... 50 Research Landscape ......................................................................................................... 50 Plants and Agriculture .......................................................................................................... 51 © IP Pragmatics Ltd, 2017 www.ip-pragmatics.com 3 | P a g e Indigo Agriculture ............................................................................................................. 51 AgBiome ........................................................................................................................... 52 BioAg Alliance ................................................................................................................... 52 Research Landscape ......................................................................................................... 53 Market Drivers and Trends ....................................................................................................... 55 Human Health and Wellbeing .............................................................................................. 55 Animal Health ....................................................................................................................... 56 Plants and Agriculture .......................................................................................................... 56 Barriers to Entry ....................................................................................................................... 57 Patent Analysis ......................................................................................................................... 62 Patent Publishing Trends ...................................................................................................... 62 Key Entities ........................................................................................................................... 63 Cluster by Entity Type: Commercial vs. Academic ........................................................... 64 Geographical Analysis ........................................................................................................... 65 Technology areas .................................................................................................................. 67 Patent Landscaping .............................................................................................................. 69 Key Patents ........................................................................................................................... 74 Forward Citation Analysis ................................................................................................. 74 Backward Citation Analysis ............................................................................................... 77 Commentary on Granting of Patents ................................................................................... 79 Appendix ................................................................................................................................... 82 Appendix 1: Deals ............................................................................................................. 82 Appendix 2: Pipeline ....................................................................................................... 101 © IP Pragmatics Ltd, 2017 www.ip-pragmatics.com 4 | P a g e EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The intention of this white paper is to provide an overview of the market developments across the microbiome commercial and patent landscapes. The information in this report does not constitute legal advice and should not be interpreted as such. The academic, market and patent trends show that the microbiome industry is at an early stage but has been undergoing rapid growth over the last two years. In particular, therapeutics based on the human gut microbiome are a source of enormous commercial potential, as indicated by several licensing deals completed in 2016 which are worth hundreds of millions of dollars each. There are no marketed microbiome based drugs currently on the market, but the first drugs and diagnostics could launch by 2018. For the purposes of this report, the market has been segmented into three areas: human health and wellbeing, animal health and plants and agriculture. Most activity is still in the academic space. Academic microbiome research is highly active across all three market segments, and this is supported by a large amount of governmental funding and national and international research programs in several developed countries. Human health is by far the largest industry sector. In this area, and in plants and agriculture, a handful of multinational healthcare companies are increasingly partnering with a range of smaller biotech companies, start-ups and/or best-in-class academic institutions to develop or license microbiome products. The key areas of interest are in drugs to tackle diseases like gastrointestinal disorders, cancer and diabetes. Venture capital (VC) firms in the U.S. and Europe have recently become active in microbiome technologies. VC firms have invested around $1 billion