Meeting of the start-up EKTAH and the Pôle de Gérontologie BFC

Cyprien PROST, Coordinator of the Innovation Pole at the AER BFC was with Nicolas SORET, Vice-President in charge of finance, economic development, social and solidarity economy and employment at the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region at the visit of two companies: the start-up Ektah and the Pôle de Gérontologie et d’Innovation Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

A discovery of the companies’ activities

The aim of these two meetings was to exchange with the two structures to discover their activities.

• The Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Gerontology and Innovation Cluster, with Françoise TENENBAUM, Regional Councillor and President of the PGI.
• EKTAH, a Dijon-based start-up working on a product to combat obesity.

About the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Gerontology and Innovation Cluster

The Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Gerontology and Innovation Cluster brings together a network of diversified and multidisciplinary players (geriatric doctors, patient associations, Carsat, mutual insurance companies, EHAPDs, companies, local authorities, etc.), with an operational team of around ten people.

About EKTAH

EKTAH’s work focuses on the orosensory detection (the sense by which we perceive flavours) of dietary fat in obesity. To reduce obesity, EKTAH aims to develop “lipid lures” that will mimic the taste of fat and trigger a perception of early satiety.