{"id":1475,"date":"2023-08-30T14:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T12:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laboratoriosluar.com\/clarin-luar-a-cordoba-laboratory-with-20-international-patents\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:51:02","slug":"clarin-luar-a-cordoba-laboratory-with-20-international-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laboratoriosluar.com\/en\/clarin-luar-a-cordoba-laboratory-with-20-international-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"Clar\u00edn &#8211; Luar, a C\u00f3rdoba laboratory with 20 international patents"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1475\" class=\"elementor elementor-1475 elementor-1454\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb74c6f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"eb74c6f\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb1cbb7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fb1cbb7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 26-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p><strong>Laboratorios Qu\u00edmica Luar<\/strong>&nbsp; is a company that, shortly after celebrating half a century in Argentina, was awarded with the<strong>SME Lifetime Achievement Award 2022<\/strong>. Among other accomplishments over half a century, the company played a prominent role during the pandemic with the development of a<strong>nebulizable ibuprofen.<\/strong><\/p>\n            \n\n            <p>\n              <strong>Clar\u00edn Editorial Office.<\/strong>\n              <time datetime=\"2022-12-05T13:33:43.000Z\" style=\"text-align: var(--text-align); font-family: var(--global-body-font-family);\">\n                \n              <\/time>\n              <span style=\"text-align: var(--text-align); font-family: var(--global-body-font-family);\">Available at: https:\/\/www.clarin.com\/economia\/luar-laboratorio-cordoba-20-patentes-internacionales_0_45gTqfl08e.html<\/span>\n              <strong style=\"text-align: var(--text-align); font-family: var(--global-body-font-family);\">\n                \n              <\/strong>\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n            <p><strong><\/strong><span style=\"text-align: var(--text-align); font-family: var(--global-body-font-family);\">&#8220;It is a joy and a great encouragement to receive this award, which we consider a very important recognition of our trajectory,&#8221; said&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: var(--text-align); font-family: var(--global-body-font-family);\">Luis Arga\u00f1ar\u00e1s<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: var(--text-align); font-family: var(--global-body-font-family);\">&nbsp;Luis Arga\u00f1ar\u00e1s, managing partner and second generation of the company.<\/span><\/p>\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>The laboratory started its activity in the city of C\u00f3rdoba in the 1970s, after other attempts&nbsp;that Arga\u00f1ar\u00e1s Sr. had created and sold. Finally, in 1978, Quimica Luar was incorporated as such, focusing on research and development of innovative products.<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>&#8220;My father, besides being a medical visitor and a great entrepreneur, was a very innovative person. So much so that it was he who created the first<strong>Brewer&#8217;s yeast in tablets<\/strong>, a product that, at the time, was very important&#8221;, said Arga\u00f1ar\u00e1s, who is a pharmacist, graduated from the School of Chemical Sciences of the Catholic University of C\u00f3rdoba.<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>Today the company produces and markets<strong>ophthalmological, antimicrobial, inhaled antimicrobial and mucolytic<\/strong> drugs<strong>&nbsp;.<\/strong><\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>&#8220;Our trajectory has been, throughout all these years, to promote research and development of innovative products. For this reason, we are committed to finding solutions for the appropriate treatment of patients and we are continuously involved with research organizations such as the<strong>Center of Excellence in Products and Processes of C\u00f3rdoba<\/strong>&nbsp;(CEPROCOR), the<strong>National University of C\u00f3rdoba<\/strong>, the<strong>CONICET<\/strong>&nbsp;and other health institutions,&#8221; explained the businessman.<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>Arga\u00f1ar\u00e1s took over the company at&nbsp;<strong>in the midst of the 2001 economic crisis<\/strong>, with the slogan of making products that &#8220;have some degree of innovation and that add value through knowledge&#8221;.<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>An important focus is the search for solutions in diseases of the so called &#8220;chronic diseases&#8221;.<strong>uncommon<\/strong>. &#8220;We look for solutions to underserved pathologies. &#8220;Our fundamental characteristic is to develop products with some degree of innovation that satisfy a genuine need, that are simple and, above all, accessible.&#8221;<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>&#8220;When I took over, I decided to follow the path of adding value through knowledge. Thus, in 2007, after an arduous public and private research, we started to commercialize<strong>the first products focused on cystic fibrosis<\/strong>,&#8221; said the entrepreneur.<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>&#8220;We are one of the most successful examples of public-private articulation, which is manifested in scientific publications and in the<strong>&nbsp;20 patents<\/strong>&nbsp;we have:<strong>2 in the United States, 2 in Europe and 16 more patents in different countries around the world<\/strong>. Something uncommon for an Argentine company of our size&#8221;.<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>In 2011 they started with the development of the<strong>Luarprofeno<\/strong>,&nbsp;a formulation for the treatment of pulmonary infections&nbsp;based on ibuprofen, inhalable and nebulizable. Little did he imagine the importance that, almost a decade later, this drug was to become from Covid 19 onwards.<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <p>&#8220;He was instrumental during the pandemic,&#8221; Arga\u00f1ar\u00e1s said. Since the main therapeutic action of this drug is as an anti-inflammatory, the research team at Qu\u00edmica Luar proposed that it be used to treat patients suffering from coronavirus pneumonia.<\/p>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>This proposal<strong>&nbsp;was approved by the Ministry of Health of Cordoba,<\/strong>&nbsp;as a &#8220;compassionate&#8221; treatment for patients with Covid 19. . &#8220;It provided encouraging results in patients in the inflammatory phase, preventing the level of deterioration at which it becomes necessary to resort to invasive mechanical ventilation,&#8221; added Arga\u00f1ar\u00e1s.<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n          \n\n          <div>\n            \n\n            <p>&#8220;Science is where we move. In that direction, being a very small company,<strong>we have achieved a level of development that allows us to transfer science to people<\/strong>,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n            \n\n          <\/div>\n        \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laboratorios Qu\u00edmica Luar&nbsp; is a company that, shortly after celebrating half a century in Argentina, was awarded with theSME Lifetime Achievement Award 2022. Among other accomplishments over half a century, the company played a prominent role during the pandemic with the development of anebulizable ibuprofen. Clar\u00edn Editorial Office. 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