Lumox won the NL Startup Competition. ✨
The competition was held last week at Upstream Festival in Rotterdam, organized by Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, one of the biggest startup competitions in the Netherlands, bringing together early-stage ventures from across the country. They will head to the Silicon Valley to visit Draper University.
Lumox is developing a cancer treatment that uses llama-derived nanobodies to deliver light-activatable drugs directly to tumor cells, then activates them with harmless light. Cancer cells destroyed. Healthy tissue spared. No disfiguring surgery. They are starting with head and neck cancer, where patients often face devastating treatment options or none at all.
This is the work of Irati Beltrán Hernández and Sebas Pronk. Years of research, preclinical validation, and real results in the veterinary clinic.
Lumox has been part of UtrechtInc´s community for a couple of years already.
Thank you Erasmus Entreprise and everyone at Upstream Festival for creating a space where science like this gets seen.