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Welcome

VitalEphX

Our Mission

VitalEphX is developing new, fast-acting, readily available and deliverable technologies to treat ischemic heart disease

Our Story

  Founded by East Carolina University faculty in the Brody School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Thomas Harriot School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry, this entrepreneurial initiative sparked by collaborative research findings is evolving into an innovative treatment paradigm that may be applicable not only to adult ischemic heart disease but to other heart and tissue pathologies in people of all ages, ethnicities, and medical conditions. 

Our MO


 "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of. imagination." ~ John Dewey. 


Interested in learning more or working with us? Get in touch today to learn more. 

Who we are and what we do

VitalEphX

Dr. Robert Hughes, Secretary, CTO, & Co-founder

   Dr. Jitka Virag, President, CSO, & Co-founder

Dr. Robert Hughes, Secretary, CTO, &Co-founder
Dr. Jitka Virag, President, CSO, & Co-founder

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