Potential

Together, we aim to establish personalized, regenerative treatments as the primary standard of care. Our goal is to help the millions of patients suffering from seriously debilitating diseases to regain control of their lives by offering them minimally invasive, low-risk treatments for the regeneration of skeletal muscle tissue. Our lead indication is stress urinary incontinence in women, and we are working to bring a cure to the more than 150 million women worldwide who suffer from this highly debilitating condition.

Project Description

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a highly prevalent and underdiagnosed disorder that affects over 200 million people worldwide. It has a severe impact on physical and psychological health, and imposes a high financial burden on affected individuals, healthcare systems, and society.

Women are affected twice as often as men, with an estimated 40% of women above the age of 40 suffering from SUI. Existing treatment options have drawbacks that range from low and short-term efficacy, in the case of conservative treatments, to potentially serious adverse events associated either with invasiveness or the introduction of foreign material, in the case of more potent surgical approaches.

MUVON is developing a low-risk, minimally invasive treatment that uses the patient’s own muscle precursor cells (MPC) to regenerate the damaged sphincter muscle, thus potentially providing a cure for SUI.

Before MUVON was founded, the team worked in the associate project MUS.I.C. to establish and validate its GMP-compliant production process at Wyss Zurich. This project was then moved to a clinical setting at the beginning of 2020, and a Phase I clinical trial was conducted. The MUVON team will now proceed with the clinical and commercial development of its therapy, evaluating the efficacy of the approach during a Phase II clinical trial and completing all activities required for regulatory approval.

Contact

Deana Mohr
Project Leader
deana.mohr@wysszurich.ch

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Faculty Mentor

Daniel Eberli

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Partners and Funding

Project Partners

  • University Hospital Zurich
  • University of Zurich, BioEntrpreneurship & Innovation (BEI) Program
  • University of Zurich, Translational Medicine Accelerator

Funding Partners

  • UZH Entrepreneur Fellowship
  • EU Horizon 2020
  • Innosuisse
  • Lichtsteiner Foundation
  • Venturelab
  • Werner Siemens Foundation

Achievements

09/2024
Ranked 18 in TOP100 Swiss Startup Award

09/2023
Winner 'Female Innovator of the Year' Award 2023

The "Female Innovator of the Year" award sponsored by BMW went to Jenny Prange (CTO) and Deana Mohr (CEO) from Muvon Therapeutics. Read more.

07/2022
Collaboration with WFIPP

MUVON enters partnership and collaboration with the World Federation of Incontinence and Pelvic Problems (WFIPP). Read more.

05/2022
Winner of Pitching Battle at Startup Days 2022

MUVON wins the Pitching Battle in the category Healthtech at the Startup Days 22. Read more.

Core Team

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Deana Mohr

Project Leader and Co-Founder

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Steve Kappenthuler

Business Development Head and Co-Founder

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Jenny Prange

Production Team Leader and Co-Founder

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