Non-invasive diagnosis. Objective surgery. Tissue that heals.
Darron develops diagnostic devices, surgical tools and regenerative therapies. It was founded in 2026 by surgeons and scientists from Freiburg and Ulm with a managing director in Switzerland, and is based at Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area.
Each family answers a different gap in care.
Diagnosis often waits for an invasive procedure or a laboratory.
Breath and tissue analysis designed to give an answer at the point of care: in the clinic, the operating theatre or at home.
- HeliProClinical breath analyser
- HeliTestHome and pharmacy breath test
- TissueScanIntra-operative histopathology
In surgery, tissue quality is still judged subjectively, by probing.
Objective measurement during the operation, and light-activated cross-linking that strengthens tissue instead of removing it.
- CartiScanCartilage assessment
- DiscCrossDisc cross-linking
- AneurCrossAneurysm wall strengthening
Trauma care is a major cost driver, and wound healing can lead to severe complications.
A platelet-based therapy, with infrared spectroscopy to tell the clinician when the gel is ready to apply.
- PlateoPatchPlatelet-based wound patch
Two programmes come first.
Darron is seeking its first funding for breath diagnostics and for tissue assessment during surgery.
Breath diagnostics
Testing for H. pylori without an invasive procedure or a laboratory, first in the clinic and then at home.
Clinical analyser, designed to screen for both H. pylori and gastric pH on site and in real time.
Home and pharmacy test, designed to be portable, run with three buttons and priced like over-the-counter devices.
Tissue assessment in the operating theatre
Giving the surgeon a measurement where the decision is currently made by judgement.
Quantitative cartilage assessment during arthroscopy, for reproducible decisions and trial endpoints.
Intra-operative histopathology on a proprietary sample holder that works across several devices.
Seven products and their regulatory route.
Shared science, separate businesses.
The programmes draw on three areas of expertise. Each one is developed so that it can be licensed, partnered or commercialised on its own.
Label-free optical and spectroscopic measurement
Reading tissue and blood products with light, without dyes or labels, so that a measurement can be taken where the patient is.
Photochemical collagen cross-linking
Riboflavin activated by UVA light creates new cross-links between collagen fibres, strengthening weakened tissue in place. The basis of DiscCross and AneurCross.
Point-of-care and endoscopic devices
Instruments designed for the place the decision is made: the consulting room, the operating theatre, the pharmacy counter.
Five founders from surgery, chemistry and materials science.
Three surgeons from the University of Freiburg, an analytical chemist from the University of Ulm, and a managing director based in Switzerland.
Business development, materials science and nanotechnology. Based in Switzerland.
Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, and Speaker of the Neurocenter, University of Freiburg.
Professor and Chair, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical Center – University of Freiburg.
Professor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, University of Ulm.
Neurosurgeon, University Medical Center Freiburg.
Three ways to work with Darron.
Clinical and research partners
Hospitals and university groups, in Switzerland and across Europe, to run validation studies for breath diagnostics and intra-operative tissue assessment.
Industrial partners and licensees
Device makers and distributors to co-develop a programme, license it, or take it to market. Each programme can be partnered on its own.
Horizon Europe consortia and Innosuisse projects
Darron is open to joining publicly funded projects as an SME device partner, with an expected IVDR or MDR class for every product.
Tell us which problem you are working on.
We welcome conversations with clinicians, researchers, industry, and investors interested in the pipeline.
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