Final Decision to award aid of 36.3 million euros for ROVI’s LAISOLID project subsidised by the CDTI

The beneficiary project, LAISOLID, focuses on developing new sterile filling technologies for polymeric matrices and new methodologies to accelerate the development of medicines based on predictive models


 

Madrid, 10 July 2025. Laboratorios Farmacéuticos ROVI, S.A. (“ROVI”) announces that, on 9 July 2025, the Technological Development and Innovation Centre (CDTI) published the Final Decision on the call for aid applications from direct and associated participants in the Important Project of Common European Interest (Med4cure)[1], confirming the grant of aid of 36.3 million euros to ROVI for development of the R&D project IPCEI – ROVI (hereinafter, LAISOLID). The project will be subsidised by the CDTI and falls within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan financed under the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility within the scope of the IPCEI Med4Cure, the first Important Project of Common European Interest focusing on health. This funding falls within the framework of the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation for Cutting-Edge Health (PERTE for Health).

As ROVI reported to the National Securities Market Commission (CMNV) as Other Relevant Information (No. 34607 of 8 May 2025), the total amount of the aid will be allocated to the LAISOLID project, the objective of which is to develop sterile filling techniques for complex polymeric matrices able to contain cells and biological material in regenerative medicine and house long-acting active ingredients whose structural characteristics must be preserved in order to ensure appropriate functionality and release characteristics in the development of long-acting injectable (LAI) formulations capable of releasing the active ingredient over several months. With these developments, the Company intends to provide technological solutions that can be applied in tissue regeneration and in the development of pharmacological treatments that enhance efficacy in therapies for serious pathologies like breast cancer.

The project submitted by ROVI likewise proposes a new approach to the development of medicines based on predictive models that will accelerate the development of new pharmacological treatments with improved efficacy through the development and validation of models that establish quantitative relationships between formulation parameters and their clinical efficacy. These developments are particularly addressed to therapeutic areas in which effective treatments are lacking and it is essential to access and maintain adequate plasma levels to ensure clinical efficacy.

ROVI, as a participant associated to the IPCEI project Medi4Cure Health, will have the support of a number of collaborations with European entities in the development of LAISOLID. The total budget for this R&D Project is 80,521,957 euros and ROVI will receive a grant of 36,341,035.65 euros from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the CDTI. This budget is in line with the forecast average annual R&D expense reported by ROVI at the Capital Markets Day on 25 March 2025, which was between 40 and 60 million euros for the next 6 years (2025-2030).

Juan López-Belmonte, ROVI’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said that “With LAISOLID, we want to reinforce our commitment to healthcare innovation. We are confident that these new long-acting formulations will provide significant clinical improvements and help offer therapeutic solutions for the patients. This grant not only provides important financial impetus but also reinforces our position as a leader in innovation in our sector. Backed by our extensive experience in development new long-acting formulations, our work aims for this technology to allow a significant improvement in both the clinical efficiency and tolerability of the treatments. This European financing will be a key element in accelerating the evolution of our solutions and extending our scope through strategic collaborations with other leading companies in the European healthcare area.”

About IPCEI Med4Cure

IPCEI Med4Cure is the first European project focused on health. It aims to boost research, innovation and the first industrial deployment of healthcare products, in addition to innovative production processes in the pharmaceutical sector, addressing diseases for which there are no satisfactory means of prevention or treatment and enhancing the European Union’s preparedness for emerging heath threats. Likewise, it contributes to the objectives of the European Industrial and Pharmaceutical Strategy, Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the new European Research Area and the Green Deal.

About ROVI

ROVI is a pan-European pharmaceutical company specialising and engaging in the research, development, contract manufacturing and marketing of small molecules and biological specialties. The company, in a continuous expansion process, has subsidiaries in Portugal, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Poland and has a diversified marketing portfolio of over 40 products, among which its flagship product, bemiparin, now present in more than 60 countries all over the world, should be highlighted. Likewise, ROVI markets its enoxaparin biosimilar, developed in-house, in Europe and this product is now present in around 60 countries. ROVI is continuing to develop the ISM® technology platform, a cutting-edge line of research in the field of prolonged drug release, with proven advantages. For more information, please visit www.rovi.es.

 

[1] https://www.cdti.es/sites/default/files/2025-07/ipcei_salud_2025_resolucion_definitiva_web.pdf

 

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