HasenTech

Impact

HasenTech is focused on providing tools for preventing and treating Graft-Versus-Host Disease.

Graft versus host disease (GVHD) is an often lethal complication from allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation used as treatment for a variety of hematologic malignancies. GVHD results from an attack on host cells by alloreactive T cells of the donor. Standard prevention and treatment for GVHD is administration of broadly immunosuppressive drugs, which suppress alloreactive T cells. These treatments however, have as a side-effect, increased risk for infection.

The technology develops a protocol whereby an exopolysaccharide (EPS) purified from a commensal soil bacterium, Bacillus subtilis induces anti-inflammatory myeloid cells, which inhibit activation of T cells.