Sandra Sulser won the 2016 Isabelle Musy Prize for her BioMe start-up project. With a prize fund of CHF 50,000, this award aims to support a female entrepreneur in setting up her start-up in French-speaking Switzerland.
The BioMe project aims to develop a new treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases by administering to the patient an extract of the gut microbiome from a healthy donor that is compatible with the patient’s own gut flora. The aim is to offer a convenient method of administration in the form of capsules or suppositories.
Sandra Sulser began her project at the end of her PhD in Professor Jan Van Der Meer’s Department of Fundamental Microbiology. She is currently also working closely with Dr Michel Maillard from the gastroenterology department at theCHUV.
In autumn 2014, Sandra Sulser presented her project at thePACTT as part of the ‘InnoTREK’ grant scheme. Her project was selected, and she was awarded a grant of CHF 100,000 from theFIT for one year.
Sandra Sulser is therefore, after Véronica Ponce de Leon, already the second recipient of a ‘’ grant to be honoured with the Isabelle Musy Prize.
PACTT wishes Sandra Sulser every success in her entrepreneurial journey!
