Aortyx, a CataloniaBio & HealthTech member, has been awarded a €250,000 grant through the Neotec 2019 programme that the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness holds annually to support the creation and consolidation of technology-based companies. In this year’s call, the programme is awarding a total of 96 grants.

Set up in 2018 by researchers at the IQS School of Engineering and Hospital Clinic Barcelona (Jordi Martorell, Noemí Balà, Salvador Borrós and Vincenç Riambau), Aortyx is working to provide a new generation of endovascular devices to treat aortic diseases, in response to unmet medical needs. The company’s technology focuses on tissue regeneration, imitating the biomechanical environment of the aorta.

Furthermore, this year Aortyx was also selected in the competitive first phase of the European Commission SME instrument with a €50,000 grant.

Want to learn more about what Aortyx does? We recommend this video of CataloniaBioHT interviewing CEO Jordi Martorell: