Cleveland Business Journal: Lamassu Biotech’s dog treatment could lead to human pancreatitis breakthrough, backed by NIH funds

06/04/2025

Lamassu Biotech, the North Carolina-based biopharmaceutical company that opened a Cleveland office last year, has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help develop its therapy for dogs with acute pancreatitis.

The therapeutic, called RABI-767, also could potentially be used to treat humans, Lamassu Biotech said in a statement.

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