RELEASE | Nanofiber based drug delivery for surgical therapy of adult and paediatric solid tumours

Summary
Cebiotex is a company founded by medical business entrepreneurs plus experts from the biomedical nano-fibre plus oncology sectors. With experts from a world leading hospital in cancer treatment(Sant Joan de Déu) and researchers from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, we have been steadily developing our technology and single minded vision for several years.

Our patented process allows for a unique method for depositing of active agents between nano-fibres. The resultant flexible, biodegradable nano-gauze will be able to radically improve treatments across multiple fields. Our first product line uses the highly potent and promising anti-cancer drug, SN-38. Until now, the low solubility of a drug such as SN-38 has withheld its adoption because standard drug delivery mechanisms fail. We turn the problem on its head, using our proprietary gauze we hold the active agent in place next to the treatment area, taking advantage of the low solubility of such drugs to provide constant high dosage to targeted cells over 4 weeks.

With a focus on this initial cancer cell therapy control drug, we have a vision to use this as a spearhead to firmly plant ourselves in the European medical biotech sector.

We request targeted SME Instrument funding in order to fully prepare the commercial groundwork for our vision to become a leading drug delivery platform organisation and to finalise plans to move our first product from pre-clinical to phase I/II trials. By challenging all of our assumptions we wish to confirm our predictions for a solid business, solid employment growth and a new nano-tech drug development specialism in Europe.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/762948
Start date: 01-02-2017
End date: 31-07-2017
Total budget - Public funding: 71 429,00 Euro - 50 000,00 Euro
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Cebiotex is a company founded by medical business entrepreneurs plus experts from the biomedical nano-fibre plus oncology sectors. With experts from a world leading hospital in cancer treatment(Sant Joan de Déu) and researchers from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, we have been steadily developing our technology and single minded vision for several years.

Our patented process allows for a unique method for depositing of active agents between nano-fibres. The resultant flexible, biodegradable nano-gauze will be able to radically improve treatments across multiple fields. Our first product line uses the highly potent and promising anti-cancer drug, SN-38. Until now, the low solubility of a drug such as SN-38 has withheld its adoption because standard drug delivery mechanisms fail. We turn the problem on its head, using our proprietary gauze we hold the active agent in place next to the treatment area, taking advantage of the low solubility of such drugs to provide constant high dosage to targeted cells over 4 weeks.

With a focus on this initial cancer cell therapy control drug, we have a vision to use this as a spearhead to firmly plant ourselves in the European medical biotech sector.

We request targeted SME Instrument funding in order to fully prepare the commercial groundwork for our vision to become a leading drug delivery platform organisation and to finalise plans to move our first product from pre-clinical to phase I/II trials. By challenging all of our assumptions we wish to confirm our predictions for a solid business, solid employment growth and a new nano-tech drug development specialism in Europe.

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CLOSED

Call topic

SMEInst-05-2016-2017

Update Date

26-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
H2020-EU.2.3. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.3.1. Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
SMEInst-05-2016-2017 Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector
H2020-EU.3. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
H2020-EU.3.1. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being
H2020-EU.3.1.0. Cross-cutting call topics
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
SMEInst-05-2016-2017 Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector
H2020-EU.3.1.3. Treating and managing disease
H2020-EU.3.1.3.0. Cross-cutting call topics
H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017
SMEInst-05-2016-2017 Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
SMEInst-05-2016-2017 Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector