June 2009, VECT-HORUS is a laureate of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) BiotecS 2009 call for proposals. The VECtoBrain project coordinated by VECT-HORUS (Dr. Patrick Vlieghe) will receive over €1 million and will involve research partners from the CNRS (UMR 6184, Dr. Michel Khrestchatisky), INSERM (U705, Pr. Jean-Michel Scherrmann) and CEA (SIMOPRO, Dr. Vincent Dive). Project title: Peptide vector-based drug targeting to the central nervous system. This project also received support (label) from the EUROBIOMED Biocluster. VECT-HORUS' News - Overview
VECT-HORUS is a French biotechnology company focused on developing vector molecules and vectorized drug-candidates that will open new avenues for drug delivery to the central nervous system (CNS, brain and spinal cord) and treatment of CNS diseases.
VECT-HORUS’ breakthrough vector technology is dedicated to enhance drug targeting and delivery to the diseased CNS for the treatment of pathologies which represent the second therapeutic area on the pharmaceutical market in terms of sales turnover. VECT-HORUS develops vector molecules for conjugation with drugs or drug-candidates that normally cannot enter the brain.
VECT-HORUS’ strategy is to leverage its CNS drug targeting platform to create patentable New Chemical Entities (NCEs) that cross the blood brain barrier (BBB). Such compounds will be out-licensed to (bio)pharmaceutical companies once proof-of-therapeutic efficacy or preclinical proof-of-principle is established... VECT-HORUS - Overview -
