ADVITOS GmbH (formerly Hepa Wash GmbH)

Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Bernhard Kreymann, nephrologist and founder of ADVITOS GmbH (previously Hepa Wash GmbH), has been working on the topic of liver and multi-organ support since 1994. During his time at the Munich University Hospital Rechts der Isar, he invented single-pass albumin dialysis in 1995, which is still used today to stabilize patients until liver transplantation. However, the method is not effective or inexpensive enough to be used more widely in everyday clinical practice.

Due to the high financial requirements, further development of a single pass albumin dialysis could not be done at the university. As a result, Hepa Wash was founded as a one-man start-up in a research lab in Garching near Munich in mid-2005. The development of the company was made possible over the years by means of several financing rounds by private investors, KfW banking groups and employees. The idea was to implement effective liver support therapy from concept to marketing. Not only has that goal been achieved, but today’s ADVOS procedure is suitable both for hepatic dialysis and is the first method in the world for extended and individualized support of the main detoxification organs: the liver, lungs and kidneys.