UCB to join MetaHIT project

7 April 2009

Belgian drugmaker UCB is to take part in the Metagenomics on the Human Intestinal Tract (MetaHIT) research project to decipher the human  microbiome.

The initiative is funded by an 11.4 million-euro ($15.3 million) grant  within the Seventh Framework Program of the European Commission. The  main objective of the project is to characterize and determine the  genetic variability of microbial communities located in the digestive  tract to determine their involvement in pathologies such as obesity and  inflammatory bowel disease.

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