Team:KUAS Korea/Sponsors/Acebiome
ACEBIOME
AceBiome is a probiotic company spun off from Bioneer in 2017. The company is known in the probiotic industry for their novel strain, Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17®, a product with 18 years of research by its parent company. AceBiome is dedicated to expanding the consumer base of beneficial probiotics to deliver health benefits to people around the globe.
Bioneer is the AceBiome’s parent company and has supported iGEM teams for years with various ways including providing with its DNA oligonucleotides. Bioneer is a South Korea-based biotechnology company which has been offering life science products to the global space since 1992. The company has a broad range of molecular diagnostic solutions and the platform technologies in RNAi-based therapeutics carrying a few pre-clinical programs in pipeline.
Global IPs of Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17® include 11 patents in 10 countries for Treatment or Prevention of Obesity & Diabetes approved in the U.S., EU countries, China, Japan and Korea; and trademarks registered or pending in over 20 countries. This strain is clinically proven through three human clinical studies in major university hospitals in Korea for the effect of reducing weight, waist & hip circumferences, visceral adipose tissue, BMI and relieving IBS significantly.
Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17®is the award-winning ingredient in Weight Management of the Year at 2018 NutraIngredients-USA Awards. AceBiome’s flagship product incorporating BNR17® is ‘BNRThin’ and it is highlighted with following features:
Body fat reduction
MFDS approved probiotic with body fat reducing health functional ingredient
Originated from human breast milk
Clinically Proven with 3 clinical studies
Global IPs: 11 patents in 10 countries and trademarks in 20+ countries
2018 NutraIngredients-USA Awards: Winner in Weight Management
BNR17® products are currently offered through a few channels in Korea including TV Home Shopping, on-line and off-line directly by AceBiome or its B2B partners. The products are also available in the U.S. market by big brands.