Advancing Onco-nutrition
Developing prototype remedies in to Effective Therapies
Oncocur develops novel and bio-active nano formulations of nutraceutical grade curcumin using proprietary methods and technologies to make it safer and easier to take. The company’s pipeline addresses cancer patient’s unmet needs with significant commercial potential in global market.
Numerous scientific studies are being conducted on diet as medicine, which has been a long overdue in oncology. We focus on purposing curcumin based adjuvants for side effects tolerance, relapse recurrence and palliative care indications.
Leveraging Bio-nano Technologies
Nano-curcumin For Cancer Care
Nano-bio technology-based drug delivery systems improve poor bioavailability and solbility, enhance biological and pharmacological activities and more importantly selectively targeting cancer cells as well as delivering drug pay loads at tumor site through controlled release sustained for longer retention time. Oncocur’s tested and scientifically designed water soluble bio-active nano-curcumin offers cancer patients much needed.
Unmet Needs of Standard Cancer Treatments
Tumors are highly heterogeneous and cancers prevail multitudes of complex mechanisms, therefore current symptomatic bio-marker or cytotoxic approaches are ineffective due to drug toxicity, side effects and treatment induced secondary cancers. There is an emerging need to scientifically examine the role of diet and food in cancer treatments to develop integrative -multi target approaches than the current reductionist cancer treatment protocols.
Research emphasises the role of nano-nutraceuticals to improve the therapeutic index and quality of life due to their multifunctional properties and their ability to influence numerous biological processes to reduce the shortcomings of non-selective cytotoxic cancer treatments. Development of new drugs takes several decades and incurs exorbitant costs, therefore clinically tested nano-curcumin based nutraceuticals becomes imperative in adjuvant therapy as they offer required safety, faster action with faster regulatory approvals.
Therapeutic Curcumin For The Cancer Treatments
Reviving – Refining – Repurposing
Cancer operates in multitudes of oncogenic signalling cascades, multitargeting drug molecules like curcumin in nano-formulation will be indispensable for the safer and effective cancer treatments. Given the exorbitant costs to develop new cancer drugs, oncocur’s FDA approved and clinically tested nano formulations of a nutraceutical curcumin will reduces the risk and results in a simplified drug development regulatory pathway allowing less expensive development programs and faster access to market.
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