Objective Founded in 2010, CarThera is a clinical stage company that develops first-in-class medical devices using therapeutic ultrasounds to treat severe brain disorders (Glioblastoma, Brain Metastasis, Alzheimer’s Disease). The company is developing the SonoCloud Device, an implant emitting Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (LIPU) to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) on demand, thus enabling the targeted delivery of a higher concentration of therapeutics agents into the brain, up to therapeutic levels (5 to 7 times more than what is possible today). Its LIPU technology can physically increase the permeability of the blood vessels by a mechanism of action that is safe and reversible, allowing molecules to be delivered towards infiltrating brain tumor cells that are normally protected by the BBB. The SonoCloud is offering for the first time in decades a means for clinicians to delay the recurrence and to prevent disease worsening in severe brain disorders like glioblastoma. The efficacy of chemotherapies will be increased. Encouraging results from a first-in-man were recently published in prestigious medical journals. It could also give a second chance to some of the hundreds of drugs against brain tumors that have been abandoned and allow existing, approved oncology drugs to be repurposed for brain tumors, greatly accelerating clinical translation and potential patient benefit. The DOMEUS project is at a pivotal moment, where CarThera is gathering data from an international (American/French), multi-center, pilot clinical study with an enlarged version of the device (SonoCloud-9). The DOMEUS project will allow CarThera to carry out a pivotal phase 2b/3 clinical trial, to industrialize the implant and to prepare for international market introduction in 2023. CarThera will transform from a clinical-stage company to a commercial-stage company, leading the new global market of in ultrasound-mediated drug delivery devices for brain diseases. Fields of science medical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologydementiaalzheimermedical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologyimplantsnatural sciencesphysical sciencesacousticsultrasound Keywords cancer oncology tumor metastasis neuro-oncology brain cancer glioblastoma blood brain barrier BBB ultrasound drug delivery chemotherapy medical device LIPU Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs Main Programme H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Topic(s) EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument Call for proposal H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3 Funding Scheme SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2 Coordinator CARTHERA Net EU contribution € 2 064 325,00 Address 47 boulevard de l'hopital 75013 Paris France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 931 028,50
