Recipient: Phillips University of Marburg
Funding: GO-Bio initial conceptual phase 4 (01/10/2023 to 30/09/2024, EUR 118,824.00)

Project description:

Many active ingredients cannot be dissolved in a sufficient manner yet are only effective within the body in dissolved form. The need for technologies that can improve the solubility of active ingredients is therefore very high. It has recently been shown that poorly water-soluble active ingredients can be stored in the pores of eggshells, increasing their solubility and bioavailability many times over. Eggshells are a renewable raw material with very low demand at the moment. They are fully biodegradable and are readily and inexpensively available worldwide in large quantities. Eggshells can therefore be used as a new, universal, cost-effective and sustainable excipient to increase the solubility of poorly soluble substances for the production of highly effective drugs or other non-pharmaceutical products. The aim of the exploratory phase is to define concrete market launch concepts for eggshell technology for the pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical industries (food technology and cosmetics), to find industrial partners for recycling and to demonstrate the universality, feasibility and superiority of the technology over existing market products for various market-relevant poorly soluble active ingredients in pilot batches.