Doing It Yourself

Doing It Yourself

Being a small company in the Brazilian biotech field and being a family business is really a challenge. With 30 years of history, we have a lot of good stories to tell regarding the challenges and curiosities of an innovative company in this sector. I remember when the CEO/founder of the company, Dr. Francisco Wykrota, together with his co-founding brother, Dr. Leonardo Wykrota, filed for financial support from the government via an agency called FINEP. The project aimed to promote an innovation establishing the manufacture of a material that was going to be used as a synthetic bone to reconstruct  … Read more

A portrait of a Brasilian bioentrepreneur

A portrait of a Brasilian bioentrepreneur

Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, after Russia, Canada, China and US. With more than 190 million people, the country is divided into 26 federal states and one federal district in which the capital, Brasilia, is located. Today it is the biggest economy in Latin America and the eighth-largest economy in the world. In accordance with a Goldman Sachs study, Brasil will become the world’s fourth-biggest economy by 2050. It has also the most natural diversity in the planet, is self-sustainable in oil and one of the largest exporters of commodities in the world. As every strong  … Read more