Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Seed Health Names Chief Scientific Officer

Los Angeles-based Seed Health, which is developing microbiome products focused on probiotics and live biotherapeutics, has named Dirk Gevers as the company's new Chief Scientific Officer. Gevers was most recently at Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, where he helped launch the Janssen Human Microbiome Institute (JHMI), according to Seed Health. The company said he also served at the Broad Insitute of MIT and Harvard. Seed Health says it is developing probiotics for gastrointestinal and digestive health, women's health, skin and oral care, pediatrics, mental health, metabolic function and nutrition.