Project description
Stem cell therapies in veterinary medicine
Available treatments for many veterinary diseases including osteoarthritis and neurodegeneration are ineffective and could improve using regenerative approaches that employ stem cells. The EU-funded Vetherapy project has developed a range of therapeutic products that are based on stem cells and their derivatives. Scientists have managed to overcome technical limitations associated with stem cell culture and extend stem cell viability to 48 hours. This provides a sufficient time window for the application of the Vetherapy products. Following a successful preclinical validation, the project's partners plan to initiate a large veterinary clinical trial to test the efficacy of their therapies.
Objective
There are a number of different veterinary diseases for which current medicine (surgical techniques and drugs) offer absolutely no solution like osteoarthritis and neurological, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Today, the treatment of these disorders could get benefit from the administration of stem cells. At Vetherapy we provide stem cell therapies and regenerative products for veterinary application, in an easy, ready-to-use, and affordable manner. We have used our knowledge and experience to develop a whole set of products that use stem cells and stem cell’s derivatives to a variety of scenarios, from injury to degenerative disorders. The secret of our success is based on an innovative technology that allowed us to overcome one of the major difficulties of the application of stem cells: cell viability. Our technology extends cell viability up to 48h (vs. 4-6h of current methods) and enables the delivery of a ready-to-use high quality product, anywhere within this time frame.
Following very promising pre-clinical results where we tested the safety and efficacy of our product, we now plan to commercialize our inventions PET-STEM and WOUND FIX® by optimizing their design and carrying out a large veterinary clinical trial.
The proposed work in Phase 1 of the SME instrument fits into our overall plan to reach the market by contributing the financial resources needed to plan a fast sound wider deployment of PET-STEM and WOUND FIX® and their market uptake.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
MAIN PROGRAMME
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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3020-210 COIMBRA
Portugal
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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