AmebaGone is advancing the fight against intractable bacterial infections
Our technology harnesses the natural predatory behavior of Dicty amoebae to kill bacteria.
Our goal is to end the overuse of antibiotics and provide a safer way to control pathogenic microbes.
Our technology
For millennia, bacteria have had a natural predator: the amoebae.
Much like lions or wolves, Dicty amoebae are group hunters, and they excel at finding and consuming their natural prey: bacteria, which in some cases can threaten human life.
Unlike lions, they don’t hunt a single bacterial specimen: amoebae can consume an entire biofilm containing billions of cells.
Our innovation
Antimicrobial resistance is a serious problem for modern medicine.
The bacteria involved in chronic intractable infections routinely feature antimicrobial resistant biofilms. Conventional antibiotics can’t do anything about that.
But our technology can.
For more information about the severity of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) visit the WHO's webpage.
Latest News
AmebaGone advances to Phase 2 of the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest.
AmebaGone awarded NIH Phase II SBIR grant to further Bacterial Keratitis treatment research.
Amebagone Inc. Selected to Present at the 2017 Ag Innovation Showcase (Sept 11-13) in St. Louis, MO.
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Funding and support
Funds raised to date
$3.4 million
Awards and prizes
3rd Place:
Semifinalist:
( 2017 )
Patents
AmebaGone and AgraFilms (our sister company) hold broad US and EU patents protecting multiple uses of Dicty in medicine, agriculture and industry.
We are the only two firms globally that have developed Dicty-derived products as antimicrobial agents.