Nuno Pires is a businessman from

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. He is the

co-founder An organizational founder is a person who has undertaken some or all of the formational work needed to create a new organization, whether it is a business, a charitable organization, a governing body, a school, a group of entertainers, or any oth ...

of Altis Biologics.

Career

Pires founded Altis Biologics with

Nicolaas Duneas Nicolaas Duneas is a South African biochemist and developer of osteogenic biomaterials. He is the co-founder (with Nuno Pires) and CEO of Altis Biologics. The company developed the first injectable treatment for bone injuries that require graft ...

in 2002. He is the

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of business development at the company. In 2012, the company won the Africa SMME Awards in the Industrial Sector category. In 2014, Pires and Duneas won the Innovation Prize for Africa. They received $100.000 for their Osteogenic Bone Matrix (OBM) innovation. Pires is a board member of the Licensing Executive Society South Africa.

References

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