Skip to content
Neobe Therapeutics

We are Neobe

Why immunotherapy fails in solid tumours

A solid tumour enclosed by a dense fibrotic stroma, with immune cells and antibodies held outside it.

01 - Our mission

The barrier

In a subset of patients, a highly fibrotic stroma wraps the tumour. Immune cells and antibodies circulate but cannot cross it. The tumour is immune excluded, and immunotherapy has nothing to work with.

Engineered bacteria at the tumour surface as the surrounding fibrotic barrier begins to break down.

02 - Our mission

The trojan horse

Engineered live biotherapeutics colonise the tumour and express their payload only there. Safe therapeutic bacterial strains with demonstrated tumour colonising properties do the delivery, so the activity stays where the disease is.

Immune cells and antibodies reaching the exposed surface of the tumour after the barrier is cleared.

03 - Our mission

Immune access

With the barrier remodelled, the tumour surface is exposed. Immune cells reach it, and existing immunotherapies gain a target they could not previously see.

Open tumour microenvironment after the tumour and the immune cells have moved out of frame.

Outcome

Expanding the benefits of immunotherapy to non-responding patients

Programmable live therapeutics, engineered to remove the barriers to immune infiltration in a safe and targeted way.

See the technology

Partners

Research backed by leading scientific partners

Meet our partners
  • Pioneer Group
  • 2048 Ventures
  • Deep Science Ventures
  • Cancer Research Horizons
  • Discovery Park Ventures
  • Innovate UK
  • Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst
  • Arc Ventures
  • Faber
  • Macmillan Cancer Support
  • Proven Connect
  • Empirical Ventures

01 - Who are Neobe

We are building a synthetic biology platform to design programmable microbial trojan horses engineered to disrupt the microenvironment of solid tumours, enabling immunotherapy success in patients with immune excluded tumours.

Pedro Correa de Sampaio, Ph.D. - LinkedInAnnelise Soulier, Ph.D. - LinkedInAbigail Little, Ph.D. - LinkedInVarun Lawrence - LinkedInJules Rognon - LinkedInSheila Johnson - LinkedInSandie McCulloch - LinkedIn

02 - Team

Meet the dedicated team of scientists behind our research

Neobe's leadership has decades of combined experience in cancer biology, advanced therapies and bacterial engineering, supported by recognized leaders in oncology business development. Our world class R&D team is committed to a culture of collaboration and inclusion, working together to bring our engineered LBPs to the clinic.

Meet the team

03 - Pipeline

Two differentiated programmes, with demonstrated pre-clinical efficacy

Two proprietary products aimed at enabling immunotherapy efficacy in patients with colorectal, pancreatic and breast cancer - solid cancer indications of high unmet clinical need.

  1. Programme 01

    • Colorectal
    • Pancreatic
    • Breast
    1. Discovery
    2. Pre-clinical
    3. IND-enabling
    4. Clinical

    At IND-enabling studies

  2. Programme 02

    • Colorectal
    • Pancreatic
    • Breast
    1. Discovery
    2. Pre-clinical
    3. IND-enabling
    4. Clinical

    Demonstrated pre-clinical efficacy

05 - Get in touch

Enabling immunotherapy where it does not yet work

For partnering, investment, scientific collaboration or a role on the team, we would like to hear from you.