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DIVERSA plans to attend SLAS2022 in Boston (February 5-9th, 2022)

DIVERSA is an early-stage biotech and drug delivery company founded in 2022 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and offers a novel patented nanotechnology based on non-toxic, biodegradable lipids.

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February is the coldest month of the year in Boston, the world’s largest Healthtech and biotech hub. “Coldest” means -3/-4 degrees Celsius in average, with peaks of up to -20 degrees. Flying from the mild Mediterranean winter temperatures to the New England coast in February might therefore seem like a bad idea. But not if you are Víctor Francis, business development manager at DIVERSA Technologies, and you are on a mission.

DIVERSA is an early-stage biotech and drug delivery company founded in 2022 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), as a spin-off of the Health Research Institute of Santiago (IDIS) and the Galician Health Service (SERGAS). DIVERSA offers a novel patented nanotechnology based on non-toxic, biodegradable lipids. These nanosystems can bind small drugs and complex macromolecules with high efficiency while boosting their therapeutic activity.

The mission in Boston has three main objectives. On the one hand, to showcase DIVERSA’s ready-to-go kits (DIVTECH formulations) to the entire research community attending SLAS2022: university research labs, Contract Research Organizations, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. These kits allow any lab to obtain encapsulating nanosystems in a fast and convenient way. They will go on sale in Europe and the UK at the end of January. On the other hand, DIVERSA is looking for a distributor for the kits in the US and Canadian markets. Last, but not least, we will be looking for companies in need of a drug delivery system for their candidate molecules: we offer them contract research & development services, with the possibility of establishing non exclusive licenses for specific indications.

DIVERSA was introduced into scientific society at BioSpain 2021. BioSpain is the largest Spanish biotechnology and pharmaceutical partnering event, held every two years and organized by ASEBIO. DIVERSA participated as an exhibitor, sponsored by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) at the September 2021 event in Pamplona (Spain). SLAS offers sponsorship and participation to events to its “Interactive AveNew” program affiliated companies. DIVERSA was selected among a list of biotech startup companies to exhibit at both BioSpain 2021 and SLAS2022.

We hope to meet you in Boston and share with you how our kits and custom formulations work and might benefit your drug discovery efforts. And, who knows, you might become our next distribution partner?