OpenBiome
Winter 2020 · Active
A nonprofit stool bank enabling access to fecal transplants.
Location: Cambridge, MA, US
Founded: 2013
Team size: 70
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About
We are a nonprofit stool bank, expanding safe access to fecal transplants and catalyzing research on the human microbiome.
Founders
Majdi OsmanFounder
Co-founder, OpenBiome. Physician scientist researching the role of the microbiome in human health.
Carolyn EdelsteinFounder
Carolyn Edelstein is OpenBiome’s Executive Director. She previously worked at Development Innovation Ventures, a program at USAID designed to fund ideas that could improve millions of lives in more cost-effective ways than standard international development approaches. Carolyn helped launch the Global Innovation Fund, a $200M multilateral development fund built on the DIV model, before co-founding OpenBiome.