CYTACOAT

CytaCoat AB is a private Swedish company located in the Karolinska Institutet Science Park AB in Solna (Stockholm area). The company was founded by a group of researchers from the Karolinska Institute, one of the foremost medical universities in the world, and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). It was a special purpose vehicle started with a goal to develop a new technology of antibacterial coating for medical devices. It was based on a discovery that our proprietary polymer surface exhibits a clear effect on several of the most problematic pathogenic bacteria that pose problems in healthcare today. Since then, the company has been focused on transforming this innovation into a fully viable commercial product and make it available through licenses... Our technology employs a cysteine ligand that inhibit bacterial adherence of the surface. The ligand is bound through a linker to a polyacrylic acid backbone forming a surface layer that is covalently bound to the medical device..

Also known as: CytaCoat AB

Primary location: Sweden