Kuragenx- the ‘Liquid’ Cornea

 

Kuragenx- the ‘Liquid’ Cornea

“VISUALISE A HONEY-LIKE liquid that is colourless and transparent but with one-fifth its viscosity. An eye surgeon removes the cornea and administers two drops into each eye cavity of a corneal blind person. The liquid spreads, solidifies in a few minutes and helps the person grow a new cornea in less than a year. The product, developed by Bengaluru-based Pandorum Technologies, has worked on hundreds of rabbits.”

A rare yet severe condition of corneal blindness is corneal ulceration, where patients suffer from inflammation, fibrosis, stromal melting, and damage to the nerves. Such serious cases of corneal damage, like a subset known as Neurotrophic keratitis, have high risk of transplant rejection and are even considered untreatable.

We have developed an advanced regenerative therapeutic option, the Kuragenx, comprising exosomes specialized for promoting cornea regeneration, combined with biopolymeric solution. This can be applied as drops on the cornea that solidifies in less than 10 min using visible light. In this formulation, the biopolymer acts as sacrificial matrix that allows sustained release of exosomes which supresses the ulceration defining condition like inflammation, reverses fibrosis, regenerates nerves and restores stromal thickness.

Kuragenx is our flagship product that can reverse an ulcerative cornea to a healthy state in less than a year. It has been developed with our excellent clinical partners in the US and India. In the US we have Dr. Satish Nadig and Dr. Ramez Haddadin, Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago and in India Dr. Virender S. Sangwan, Dr. Shroff’s charity eye hospital, New Delhi as our clinical collaborators.