Alcresta Pharmaceuticals Inc. aims to combat malabsorption, with an initial focus on enzyme deficiencies, for people with gastrointestinal disorders and rare diseases. It is developing a pipeline of point-of-care nutritional products tailored to maximize the absorption of calories or specific nutrients, based on cartridges enclosing enzymes immobilized onto polymer beads.
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