Our Opinion

VectivBio Holding AG is on the Cruelty Free Investing use of animals list because they conduct pre-clinical studies of their drugs on animals to assess a product’s safety profile.

Supporting Evidence:

The company stated in the following report that they exploit animals for product testing.

“After dosing on the final day, the GI tract of each rat was excised and the small intestines were carefully dissected, emptied of contents, cleaned and weighed. Compound-induced intestinal growth was determined by comparing the wet weight of the small intestine, as a percentage of body weight, in compound-treated animals relative to the vehicle treated group average from the respective study. In this study, apraglutide demonstrated a greater increase in intestinal wet weight when compared to teduglutide and glepaglutide.” (Page 112) Read the full document

Company Description

VectivBio Holding AG, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of medicines for treatments of severe rare conditions. It develops apraglutide, a long-acting synthetic peptide analog of glucagon-like peptide-2 that is in Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of patients with short bowel syndrome-intestinal failure (SBS-IF), as well as apraglutide is in Phase II clinical trial for SBS-IF in patients with colon-in-continuity anatomy. The company is also developing apraglutide, which is in Phase II clinical trial for patients with steroid-refractory gastrointestinal acute versus host disease (aGvHD). The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Company Website: https://vectivbio.com