Start-Up Spotlight: Pertinax Pharma, Closing In On Wound Care With Slow-Release CHX Tech
Executive Summary
A UK drug-delivery firm is bringing its antimicrobial material to the global wound-care market. Pertinax Pharma, a Bristol University spin-out, is the developer of a slow-release technology that provides controlled and sustained delivery of the antiseptic chlorhexidine.
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