Xylyx Bio Awarded $2.26M NIH SBIR Grant from National Cancer Institute

Xylyx Bio, Inc., a regenerative medicine company developing groundbreaking solutions for tissue and organ modeling and repair, announced today that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Fast-Track grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance commercial development of its InMatrico® disease modeling and drug testing platform to help scientists discover and test drug candidates for metastatic breast cancer. Xylyx Bio’s InMatrico® metastatic breast cancer cell-based assay platform aims to address the lack of in-vitro models of organotropic breast cancer metastases in the market and accelerate development of improved treatment options for millions of patients with metastatic disease. The award will provide $2,265,419 to support development of a cell-based assay platform that models organotropic metastases using patient-derived breast cancer organoids and tissue-specific bone, liver, and lung extracellular matrices (ECMs). Read more >>