About us
We are a healthcare-focused biotech company, offering unique skincare formulations designed in collaboration with scientists, dermatologists and oncology specialists and validated through vigorous R&D and clinical data.
We are a healthcare-focused biotech company, offering unique skincare formulations designed in collaboration with scientists, dermatologists and oncology specialists and validated through vigorous R&D and clinical data.
We are a healthcare-focused biotech company, offering unique skincare formulations designed in collaboration with scientists, dermatologists and oncology specialists and validated through vigorous R&D and clinical data.
THE NEED
Patients undergoing oncological treatment face serious dermatological issues such as skin irritation, radiodermatitis, erythema, hair changes, skin inflammation, brittle nails, stomatitis etc.
THE PROBLEM
Available options for skin care management in cancer patients are still quite limited and products created specifically for those patients who suffer from dermatological side effects are still not widely available, are usually not effective and may contain potentially harmful chemicals.
Our story
With a background in Biochemistry, Nanotherapeutics and Cancer Research the last 20 years, Dr. Marianna was focusing in developing novel cancer therapeutics and biomaterials such as collagen for regenerative medicine. In 2018 and after a long and unfair battle with cancer her younger sister Magdaline lost the fight by ovarian cancer.
For two years, we were battling not only for survival but also to improve Magdaline’s quality of life. From little things such as finding the right products that her sensitive skin would tolerate; to the extreme case when we had to cater for her severe dermatitis (post-radiation treatment) and chemotherapy extravasation (after spending long hours with an IV into her arm).
So when the disease knocked our family door, we were unprepared, and it was then that in shock I realised the non-existent solutions for the oncology patients. There was a gap between the patient, the doctors and the people behind the formulation of these much-needed solutions, the biologists.
Dr Marianna shares.
A few months later, Dr Marianna decided that she had to act, but that was a fight she did not want to give alone. She discovered Dr Anna by luck.
Dr. Anna has a background in immunology, microbiology and haematology and with 40 years of experience into developing organic and natural products from Mediterranean and Asian herbs such as creams and oils. It was the perfect match!
Both agreed to work together with one and only mission: to improve the quality of life for patients living with cancer fast. They wanted to create something unique, that only caters for the needs of the patients and combines their scientific knowledge with the secrets of nature.
Dr Marianna and Dr Anna have been working relentlessly since 2018, testing different formulas, discovering new ingredients and creating an amazing team of people that really care.
We are all about helping and caring for others.
Awards & Nominations
FINALIST
Falling Walls Science Start-up Breakthrough of the Year 2022
Falling Walls Venture, Berlin, July 2022
for RSL Revolutionary Labs
AWARD
King’s STEM Alumni Award
King’s College, London, June 2022
for Dr Marianna Prokopi-Demetriades
AWARD
Cyprus Research Award in Life Sciences
Research & Innovation Foundation, Cyprus, December 2021
for Dr Marianna Prokopi-Demetriades
AWARD
Woman of the Year in Innovation 2019
Madame Figaro Awards, Cyprus, October 2020
for Dr Marianna Prokopi-Demetriades
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