Sothic Bioscience saving the horseshoe crab to lucrative effect
Business was set up by microbiologists Stephen Geary and Piotr Jakubowicz
Name: Stephen Geary
Company: Sothic Bioscience
The pitch: synthetic pharmaceutical reagent
Cork start-up Sothic Bioscience will close a €700,000 seed funding round in January as it prepares to go into production with a “revolutionary” synthetic pharmaceutical product.
Established last April by microbiologists Stephen Geary and Piotr Jakubowicz, Sothic has developed a biomolecular replacement for an unsustainable animal-derived reagent used in pharmaceutical product testing.
The reagent, Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), is used universally in ...
