James is a medical student at Aberdeen University who identified an unmet need in the treatment of patients suffering from the C.diff bowel infection, which can cause debilitating ulceration and, in 10 per cent of patients, leads to death.
The treatment is called faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), where bacteria is extracted from stools donated by healthy donors and transplanted into the colon of the patient.
The success rate is very high, at over 90 per cent, but the availability of the treatment is extremely limited. James set up a community interest company called EuroBiotix CIC with the aim of creating a stool bank from where screened safe FMT treatments could be provided to physicians within Scotland initially, but eventually the whole of the UK and Europe.
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