Pasteuria Bioscience, Inc.

Pasteuria Bioscience, Inc. was founded in 2003 in the University of Florida’s Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator.  The company was spun out of Entomos, Inc. in order to commercialize its revolutionary technology for production of nematode control products.  The company has successfully raised over $6 millon in venture funding in its series A and series B rounds, which has enabled the advancement of the technology to the point of commercial-scale production and EPA registration of its first product.  This product, for control of sting nematodes in professional turf, is expected to launch in late 2009.  Progress towards launch is supported by multiple ongoing turf field trials and other commercial development activities.  The company also continues to build its pipeline of products and its intellectual property portfolio through a vigorous laboratory development program.   

Our current status:

1. We can make the product at a small scale.
2. Our product is effective. In a pot test carried out by Prof. William Crowe at the University of Florida, our in vitro produced spores reduced nematode eggs on tomato plant roots by 87%. This reduction was greater than the reduction produced by in vivo-produced spores. Application of a t-test confirms at the 98% confidence level that the reduction in eggs by the in vitro treatment is significant.
3. Our product is proven in numerous lab and field tests.
4. Our process works for multiple strains of P. penetrans attacking multiple types of nematodes.We have cultured a large number of Pasteuria isolates taken from four species of nematodes (Root Knot, Sting, Lance, and Cyst).
5. We are in the process of registering our product with the Environmental Protection Agency.
6. We have secured our intellectual property, through filed patents and other protective measures.