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  1. Michael Harrop

    Sources Does anyone have any experience with Microbiota Therapeutics at UMN (University of Minnesota)?

    ...person running it seems apathetic about donor quality, and thus their donors even failed for C. diff. https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/search/1820611/?q=umn&c[title_only]=1&o=date More results mentioning the person who runs it...
  2. Michael Harrop

    FMT The challenges and opportunities in the expanding horizons of microbiota transplant therapies (Nov 2025, editorial)

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2559032 This is significant because it's written by Dr. Alexander Khoruts, who runs the main/only stool bank in the US. I wrote to him some months ago about his previous supposed objections to the FDA regulating FMT as a drug, and the...
  3. Michael Harrop

    Study Patient Advocacy Organizations: Institutional Conflicts of Interest, Trust, and Trustworthiness (2013)

    ...complex. This massive hundred billion dollar industry relies on people being chronically ill. And even members of it, like Dr. Alexander Khoruts, who claims he's different and wants a cure, do not behave any differently. Neither do patients associated with him who have had devastating health...
  4. Michael Harrop

    Blog The FDA and FMT regulation, part 2. (Jul 2024, HumanMicrobes.org) I met with the FDA. Here's what I shared with them, and their response.

    ...https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/fecal-microbiota-transplantation-to-prevent-acute-graft-versus-host-di.834/ It's run by Dr. Alexander Khoruts. He disagreed with my donor criteria, and these are the results.
  5. Michael Harrop

    FMT Microbiota Therapeutics Program (MTP) at the University of Minnesota (Jun 2025, UMN) Donor-centric administration of the stool donor program is vital to its feasibility and patient safety

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2508950 UMN GMP stool bank provides insights from their and other companies' experiences. UMN appears to have some of the worst donors that exist anywhere. Interestingly, they mention relevant info about the donor recruitment, payment...
  6. Michael Harrop

    FMT VA trial using the University of Minnesota's donors, finds no reduction in C diff recurrence after FMT (Sep 2024, n=153, UMN) A randomized controlled trial of efficacy and safety of Fecal Microbiota Transplant for preventing recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection

    Alexander Khoruts and Christopher Staley from UMN responded: FMT for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection (Apr 2025) https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf138/8117303 They blame it on the 1-week delay after giving antibiotics. I don't think that's correct, and...
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    Feedback Suggestions & feedback for the wiki. More research links + book

    Hi, I was just looking through the wiki, and honestly it's a bit out of date. Not that I blame anyone, nobody can keep up with all the research on all the different conditions, but I thought I'd help by sharing what I've found. I'd be curious to know what you make of this study and why you...
  8. Michael Harrop

    FMT Fecal microbiota transplantation to prevent acute graft-versus-host disease: pre-planned interim analysis of donor effect (Jan 2025, n=20, UMN) 3 patients developed severe aGVHD from Donor 1

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56375-y Mainly a group from the University of Washington, plus Alexander Khoruts from the University of Minnesota. Absolutely ridiculous that they think these are the important donor factors to list. 0 results for "stool type". And I don't see any...
  9. Michael Harrop

    Blog The FDA and FMT regulation. (Mar 2024, HumanMicrobes.org)

    ...(2023) https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/9d3aab93-b705-4c10-805c-b537b692d991/content In the US, Dr. Alexander Khoruts (University of Minnesota GI, Director, UMN Microbiota Therapeutics Program), one of the people who was part of the discussion to create the term "FMT"...
  10. Michael Harrop

    Video Designer $hit Panel Discussion | Achieving Cures Together (Dec 2023). Peter Westerhaus, Dr. Alexander Khoruts, Dr. Beth Adams, and Amanda Kabage.

    ...(and https://humanmicrobiome.info/where-to-get-fmt), as they discussed similar sites & topics. Dr. Alexander Khoruts (University of Minnesota GI, Director, UMN Microbiota Therapeutics Program) made a concerning and depressing statement about the FDA at 43:30. He asks an FDA adviser "Does the...
  11. Michael Harrop

    Sources Analysis of OpenBiome's safety and efficacy (Aug 2018)

    EDITs: I find it pretty concerning that I shared this with both OpenBiome and the FDA yet 5-6 months later people are still reporting developing the same allergies and food intolerances after using OpenBiome donors, which strongly suggests that nothing has been done. Their questionnaire doesn't...
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