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In close collaboration with leading Danish hospitals, Sonion Medical has reached important pre-clinical results in the treatment of diseases in the brain by means of sophisticated electrode technology.
Electroporation is a platform technology for creating temporary pores in soft tissue cell membranes in a limited tissue region – enabling focused treatments.
Current state-of-the-art electroporation devices are large and most are only suitable for superficial treatment. The new and more advanced electrode device technology currently being developed by Sonion Medical is built to reach deeper-lying tissues. It is believed that the new electrodes will have substantial impact on the treatment of difficult cancers for patient groups currently having very few treatment alternatives.
The vision behind the electroporation project is to create a versatile, safe and highly effective, electrode device platform for the treatment of cancer. However, in the longer term this platform also holds potential for gene and DNA transfection.
Cutting-edge research work since 2006 between Sonion Medical, the Department of Oncology at Danish Herlev Hospital and the Department of Neurology at Danish Glostrup Hospital, resulted in a 10.9 million Danish kroner grant from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation in December 2007. This substantial funding makes it possible for us to optimally exploit project opportunities, while at the same time ensuring the shortest possible time-to-treatment.
Our trials so far are very promising.
Electroporation - basically pure physics
(science of thresholds).
Works with all tissues.
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