Project description
Expediting the drug discovery process
Drug discovery is an expensive and lengthy process. The vast majority of drugs do not reach clinical trials due to toxicity or lack of efficacy, highlighting the need for better screening tools during the research and development phase. The Spanish Enzymlogic company has developed a robust methodology, KINETICfinder, for drug kinetic analysis in a high-throughput manner. It can be employed at early stages of drug research to reduce the time and cost by 50 %. With the EU funding, KINETICfinder will be further validated and a detailed market study will be conducted for its commercialisation.
Objective
Bringing Bringing a new drug to the market costs 2,600 M€ and it takes 12 years. In addition, around 80% of drugs under research do not reach clinical trials (due to toxicity or lack of efficacy). ENZYMLOGIC was created with the aim of being a company in the niche of kinetic analysis. They have developed KINETICfinder: an experimental, robust, accurate and reproducible methodology that provides drug kinetic analyses in a massive way and at affordable cost, so it is possible to utilise it in early research stages, when thousands of drugs are involved. ENZYMLOGIC has been focused on providing auxiliar external analysis having pharmaceutical companies as customers. Nowadays, there are no comparable technologies capables of generating this amount of information with this level of processivity (number of drugs analysed at the same time). Currently, this analysis is extremely slow and costly, thus it is carried out in the final stages of the research, with just a small number of drugs. Otherwise, the number of different drugs they can analyse is 10 times higher and 10 times faster than other kinetic analysis (processivity). KINETICfinder can reduce the time and cost by 50% from the research phase of a new drug to the market phase. KINETICfinder already makes it possible to analyse 30 kinase targets (involved in cancer), and the next step is to work with GPCRs (neurodegenerative disorders, inflammation, pain, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes). 40% of the existing drugs are aimed at GPCRs. ENZYMLOGIC has obtained several prizes recognizing innovation and potential growth. The objective in phase I will be the validation of the use of KINETICfinder for working with GPCRs having as a base the previous work performed with kinases. To achieve this, the associated tasks shall be: validation of the method working with GPCRs having as a base the previous work performed with kinases, detailed market study & business plan elaboration and validation of commercialization strategy.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy drug discovery
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology dementia alzheimer
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine endocrinology diabetes
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine cardiology cardiovascular diseases
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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28760 TRES CANTOS MADRID
Spain
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