Integrated Biosciences Partners with Project 8p Foundation to Pioneer a New Path to Groundbreaking Treatments for Chromosomal Disorders

Partnership expands Integrated Biosciences’ partnerships in translational research and Project 8p Foundation’s footprint in therapeutic development

SAN CARLOS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Integrated Biosciences, a biotechnology company pioneering the use of synthetic biology and machine learning to develop next-generation therapeutics for age-related diseases, today announced a strategic partnership with the patient-led Project 8p Foundation to enhance the treatment landscape for chromosome 8p duplication, deletion and inverted duplication deletion (inv/dup/del) disorders. This partnership provides support to enable Integrated Biosciences to characterize and correct the dysregulation of cellular stress responses in 8p cell lines, paving the way for the development of first-in-class, disease-modifying treatments for 8p heroes suffering from complex, megabase-scale rearrangements of the short arm of chromosome 8p.

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The Project 8p Foundation (Project 8p) was created in 2018 to:

  • Accelerate future treatments, not only for 8p, but potentially for other chromosome-wide diseases as well.
  • Lead with knowledge from patients. Currently, there is no cure for 8p disorders, nor is there a standard course of treatment.

The Project 8p Foundation (Project 8p) was created in 2018 to:

  • Raise transformative funding for pioneering scientific research into treatments for a complex, rare disease involving 250+ affected genes on the short arm of the 8 th chromosome (8p). Rearrangements of these genes causes significant abnormalities to the entire neurological system, thus all organs and functions of the body– with variance in cognitive functions, gross motor skills, social development and other challenges during infancy, and throughout life;
  • Empower a unified community of 8p patients and their families so they can have meaningful lives today; and
  • Accelerate future treatments, not only for 8p, but potentially for other chromosome-wide diseases as well.