Project description
A smart sensitiser to cancer radiation acts only when radiation arrives
Cancer treatment regimens vary and can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, so-called 'targeted' therapy, hormone therapy or a combination of treatments. Typically, radiation therapy and chemotherapy are given at separate intervals. However, concurrent chemoradiotherapy is becoming the regimen of choice in a growing number of cases. The EU-funded Promitil project has developed a novel, smart chemoradiotherapy by the same name that promises to enhance outcomes with fewer side effects. Unlike other chemotherapies, Promitil becomes active only when radiated for enhanced safety and efficacy. EU-funding is supporting development of the appropriate business plan and marketing strategy to ensure the technical expertise is exploited and patients begin to benefit.
Objective
There were over 18M new cases of cancer worldwide in 2018, out of which about 3.7M were in Europe. To treat cancer, radiotherapy is increasingly used in combination with chemotherapy. Chemo-radiotherapy is a non-invasive approach for cancer local control, given within a reduced period time and with potential for complete cure of cancer. The key to enabling the full potential of chemo-radiotherapy depends on radio-sensitization, which means the degree of effectiveness of the anti-cancer agents used for chemotherapy that make tumour cell more sensitive to radiation therapy. However, radio-sensitizers, like Mitomycin-C (MMC), still need to be significantly improved to achieve a more effective and safe treatment of patients.
LipoMedix has developed a novel nanomedicine (Promitil® ) for chemo-radiotherapy. It is a liposome formulation of a Mitomycin-C Lipid-based (MLP) prodrug of the anticancer agent MMC. Promitil® enables efficient delivery of MLP with rapid activation in tumour tissue, yet with improved safety profile because it becomes active only upon radiation. This results in a higher and safer radio-sensitization effect.
LipoMedix is an Israeli pharma SME founded in 2011. Its team has been involved for more than 20 years in cancer drugs and therapies, and now its mission is deliver to a novel, efficient, and side-effect free liposome prodrug to improve patients’ quality of life, healthcare outcomes and reduce the economic healthcare stress of chemo-radiotherapy.
The SME-I Phase 1 project perfectly suits the innovation’s current stage of development and overall business strategy allowing LipoMedix to check final specifications of Promitil®, establish sound business development and gain partners necessary for the Phase II study.
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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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9139102 JERULASEM
Israel
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