Prota Therapeutics is an Australian, proprietary limited, privately-held biotech company established in 2016 to develop and commercialize novel oral immunotherapy treatments. Prota holds an exclusive license to the proprietary food immunotherapy technology, developed at the MCRI. Series A funding of AUD $15m was secured from OneVentures, a leading Australian venture capital investment firm (OneVentures’ Healthcare Fund III) – including $5M from the Australian Commonwealth Government Biomedical Translation Fund – as well as private investment. This has enabled Prota to advance it’s clinical program, develop scalable cGMP product manufacturing processes, and initiate discussions with regulatory agencies in the lead up to a planned large-scale pivotal Phase 3 efficacy and safety study for the PRT120 peanut allergy treatment.