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UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDG)
This innovation contributes to the following SDG(s)
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 3
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

The UN explains: "Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers responsible for child and maternal mortality.

Major progress has also been made on increasing access to clean water and sanitation, reducing malaria, tuberculosis, polio and the spread of HIV/AIDS.

However, many more efforts are needed to control a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues."

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 9
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

The UN explains: "Investments in infrastructure – transport, irrigation, energy and information and communication technology – are crucial to achieving sustainable development and empowering communities in many countries. It has long been recognized that growth in productivity and incomes, and improvements in health and education outcomes require investment in infrastructure."

The EU-funded Research Project
This innovation was developed under the Horizon Europe project Nano4Rare with an end date of 31/10/2025
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Description of Project Nano4Rare
Despite the development of new orphan medicines in recent years, there are still limited treatment options available for rare diseases. Nano4Rare team has developed a patent protected nanoencapsulation KET for the development of cost-effective therapies for rare diseases, based on biomolecules. Nano4Rare team has successfully used this technology for the development of a new patent protected medicinal product candidate, named nanoGLA, for the treatment of Fabry disease, which is one of the most devasting LSD rare diseases. NanoGLA has been designated, on January 2021, as Orphan Drug by the European Medicine Agency (EMA) and the European Comission. With the EU H2020 Smart4Fabry, nanoGLA was brought to an advanced stage of preclinical development (first GLP-toxicology in rats included). Under Phoenix EU Project (#953110)(2021-2025), nano-GLA production will be scaled-up and brought to GMP conditions. As a first objective, Nano4Rare project will use nanoGLA engineered batches produced in the frame of Phoenix project to complete the preclinical phase and generate sufficient quality data on safety, efficacy, and quality in order to get approval by regulators to proceed with clinical phase. As a second objective, a new spin-off company will be created for the advancement of the nanoGLA towards the market and the commercialisation of the patent protected nanoencapsulation platform to generate new product candidates for rare disease treatments.

Innnovation Radar's analysis of this innovation is based on data collected on 24/01/2025.
The unique id of this innovation in the European Commission's IT systems is: 132562