Technology Portfolio Detail - ITEK - The Commercialisation Company of the University of South Australia

LipoCeramic ™ Capsules is a delivery technology platform that represents a novel method for encapsulating active ingredients in emulsion droplets. The nano-structured capsules have cores of biocompatible oil that contains the active compound of interest. The technology is based on nanoparticle encapsulated phospholipid emulsion droplets and is designed to solve a number of key problems in the delivery of pharmaceutical drugs and cosmetics that include poor solubility and bioavailability, poor stability and shelf life, dose variability and need for lower doses, improved delivery kinetics and ease of manufacture.

This technology has been shown to solve these problems and significantly improve efficiencies for several proof-of-concept drugs and other compounds in both in vitro and in vivo tests. The application of these same techniques to an incredibly wide range of active compounds is expected to yield similar improvements for each pharmaceutical and cosmetic active ingredient encapsulated in this way. In addition, drugs that cannot be delivered orally, can now be so due to the protection from the gastro-intestinal tract afforded by the capsules.