Dicot applies for patent covering new manufacturing technology
Press release: Uppsala, Sweden, January 11, 2024. The pharmaceutical company Dicot has applied for a patent covering a novel technology to manufacture the starting material for its potency drug candidate. It concerns a custom-designed approach in cell cultivation developed in partnership with Uppsala University.In 2022, Dicot started a research project with Uppsala University and W. Szafer Institute of Botany to investigate whether the starting material for the drug candidate LIB-01 could be produced by using plant cells grown in cultures; an established technology for large-scale