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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.