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A nonprofit stool bank enabling access to fecal transplants.

Winter 2020Founded 201370 peopleCambridge, MA, USA
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We are a nonprofit stool bank, expanding safe access to fecal transplants and catalyzing research on the human microbiome.

Founders · 2

Majdi Osman
Majdi OsmanFounder

Co-founder, OpenBiome. Physician scientist researching the role of the microbiome in human health.

Carolyn Edelstein
Carolyn EdelsteinFounder

Carolyn Edelstein is OpenBiome’s Executive Director. She previously worked at Development Innovation Ventures, a program at USAID designed to fund ideas that could improve millions of lives in more cost-effective ways than standard international development approaches. Carolyn helped launch the Global Innovation Fund, a $200M multilateral development fund built on the DIV model, before co-founding OpenBiome.

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