Business Finland supporting Medicortex
Medicortex Finland Oyj, a Finnish biotechnology company focusing on brain injury diagnostics announces receiving a funding decision from Business Finland, the Finnish government organization for innovation funding. The funds will be used to expedite the development of a medical diagnostic test kit to improve detection of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. Medicortex has a share issue ongoing to raise the matching private funding.
Medicortex is targeting a biomarker of head injury in body fluids such as saliva and urine. The Business Finland funding will cover 50% of the prospective total project budget of more than 800.000 euro, and it will support the final development of a test kit for easy and rapid detection of brain injury and concussion, as well as setting up initial production capacity. The objective of the company’s biomarker program is to generate new means for early detection of brain injury, which is a global medical need. Current methods of brain injury diagnostics which are based on neurological examination and imaging do not reliably detect mild brain injury. Unrecognized head injury can develop into a chronic condition or even have fatal implications. The market potential for a new diagnostic tool is substantial with more than 70 million people globally suffering brain injuries each year.
Receiving this highly competitive funding is a valuable recognition of the company’s team efforts and affirms the urgent need to be able to rapidly and reliably diagnose TBI and concussions. The CEO of Medicortex, Adrian Harel: “It is an important milestone for the team and the technology, we are thankful to Business Finland for this support, and we thank the investors that supported us until now”.
Medicortex is looking for investments to raise the complementary 200.000 euro of private funding to launch the project. The share issue is open to private investors as well as to institutional investors. The subscription price is 1 euro per share and the minimum subscription is 3.000 euro. Information for investors is available at https://www.medicortex.fi/eng/investors/.
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Tel: +358 400 488 817
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Medicortex Finland Oyj is a biotechnology company dedicated to improving the diagnostics of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Its current focus is on developing biomarker diagnostics to detect head injury in an easy way. The company has the technology to capture biomarkers from urine and saliva and to develop them into an affordable diagnostic tool. Medicortex was established by an Israeli neurobiologist Adrian Harel (Ph.D., MBA) in 2014, and the company is based in Turku, Finland.
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