MIP Technologies and Lund University to develop antibody substitutes
Developer of molecularly imprinted polymers MIP Technologies AB, has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for an industrial researcher collaboration with the Department of Physical Chemistry 1 at Lund University.
Developer of molecularly imprinted polymers MIP Technologies AB, has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for an industrial researcher collaboration with the Department of Physical Chemistry 1 at Lund University.
MIP Technologies currently develops analytical separation products (e.g. SPE) and has its headquarters in Lund, Sweden. The new project will explore and develop methods for production of smart polymer materials that mimic functionalities and properties of biological macromolecules such as proteins, enzymes and antibodies.
It will run for four years and will initially focus the work on structure-performance relationships in known bio macromolecules. Using this information as a base, the active chemical functionalities will to be built into new synthetic materials via polymerization in structured dispersed media.
"The field of artificial proteins is at an early stage but developments in this project may see, in the future, the substitution of antibodies and other therapeutic proteins by truly artificial bioactive entities," said Anthony Rees, coe at MIP Technologies.