Founded in 2020, Galway-based Xtremedy is raising seed funding to start clinical trials for its novel medical device to treat diabetic foot infections.
Lyn Markey first met Camille O’Malley at the BioInnovate Ireland fellowship programme in 2018, as part of the orthopaedics team.
During this time, they saw a lot of joint replacement and trauma surgeries for broken bones and identified an urgent clinical need in the treatment of post-surgical infections.
“These patients were undergoing months of therapy, which was often ineffective at controlling the infection. The patients were visibly upset from the pain, immobility and social isolation caused by their condition,” said Markey, an entrepreneur and expert in medicinal chemistry.