Norwegian Society for Photobiology and Photomedicine

Preventing COVID-19 with Photodisinfection – New Results Presented at European Society of Photobiology

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Saturday, September 18, 2021

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    Ondine Biomedical, which specializes in photodisinfection-based medical devices, presented in vitro and in vivo results which demonstrated elimination of the SARS-CoV-2 genome after less than a few minutes of photodisinfection treatment at the recent European Society of Photobiology conference in Austria.
  • Ondines photodisinfection technology was also shown to destroy spike protein and receptor binding domains from various major viral variants including the highly infectious Delta variant from India.
  • Dr. Nicolas Loebel, President and Chief Technology Officer, told the meeting, The nose is a major reservoir of SARS-CoV-2.
  • Ondine has developed a patented, painless, photodisinfection technology platform used in treatment and prevention therapies for a broad-spectrum of pathogens - bacterial, viral and fungal - including multidrug-resistant strains.