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“Branca Bunús” pitched as part of the NovaUCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme Showcase and Awards

Published: 27 November, 2019

 

Prof. Wang and Dr. Lara-Sáez pitched “Branca Bunús” as part of the NovaUCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme Showcase and Awards at the UCD O’Brien Centre for Science.

Branca Bunús is one such UCD based spin-out gene therapy company that is developing a technology to help cure Epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a devastating genetic disorder that makes the skin as fragile as butterfly wings and for which there is currently no cure and which affects half a million people worldwide. Branca Bunús is fighting to give these people a normal life.

The aim of the annual accelerator programme is to support the creation and launch of sustainable and profitable new start-ups emerging from UCD.

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