Bionature is a biomedical research and development Company founded in 2003 by Professors Elias Castanas and Achilleas Gravanis, both of the Medical School of the University of Crete and the investment group of Emergo.

Bionature seeks to identify new technologies that will enable the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of major diseases. The main focus is the design and development of novel drug candidates for the treatment of cancer and neurological disease.

The Company’s strategic objective is to in-license, protect and commercially exploit intellectual property rights that arise from the research activities of its scientists and their associates. Bionature aims to continually generate novel therapeutic agents of large clinical importance and value. In effect, Bionature operates as a small early stage technology incubator, developing and nurturing R&D projects with significant market potential.

Bionature leverages its partnerships with academic centers to create synergy in applied and clinical research in the biomedical sciences, and in the development, testing and marketing of innovative pharmaceuticals and other biomedical products. Bionature is actively looking for licensing partners.

“Bionature will capitalise on innovative research and build stakeholder value by generating, effectively protecting and licensing intellectual property.”

LATEST PUBLICATIONS
Analogues with modifications at positions C3 or C17 were synthesized and evaluated for neuroprotective activity against the neural-crest-derived PC12 cell model of serum deprivation-induced apoptosis. Our results suggest that the spiro-epoxyneurosteroid derivatives 20, 23, and 27 may prove to be lead molecules for the synthesis of novel neuroprotective agents.
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