Synthetic Phage Program
Our proprietary phage engineering platform serves to enhance the clinical and commercial prospects of phage therapy. These attributes include expanded host range, improved potency which is a fundamental drug property that can translate into improved clinical efficacy, and importantly, biofilm disruption, which is a critical aspect of serious infections that needs to be addressed.
Discovery Research
In addition to our more advanced pipeline programs, Armata has phage discovery efforts underway to target other major pathogens of infectious disease (including the ESKAPE pathogens: Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species), and preventable disease of the microbiome.
Phage Targeting ESKAPE Pathogens
Microbiologists at Armata are actively hunting for natural phages that target ESKAPE pathogens, and to evaluate the suitability of these phages for engineering using our proprietary synthetic phage platform.
Microbiome
The developing science of the microbiome highlights the potential to impact a broad array of human disease, from oral healthcare to systemic diseases, such as autoimmunity, and immuno-oncology. The complexity of the developing science demands a broad effort in clarifying microbial-host interactions, designing intervention strategies, and crafting a viable clinical path. Armata’s strategy is to seek partners that share a long-term commitment to develop meaningful microbiome therapies utilizing natural and/or synthetic bacteriophages.
