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HerelleX recognized at Santander X Global Awards, MWC 2026

Our CEO, Agustín Pablo Seijo, shares the vision behind FluoTB, the low-cost tuberculosis diagnostic tool we are developing.

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Agustín SeijoCEO
Grupo de emprendedores celebrando con sus premios en el escenario de los Santander X Global Awards, MWC Barcelona 2026.

The recognition

HerelleX was recognized at the Santander X Global Awards, held during MWC Barcelona 2026.

Agustín Pablo Seijo, CEO of HerelleX, with the Santander X Global Awards trophy at MWC Barcelona 2026.
Agustín Pablo Seijo, CEO of HerelleX, with the Santander X Global Awards trophy at MWC Barcelona 2026.

About FluoTB

We are developing FluoTB, a low-cost diagnostic tool based on engineered mycobacteriophages. Its goal is to make TB detection faster and more accessible, especially in low-resource and high-burden regions.

An incredible group of entrepreneurs from around the world at the Santander X Global Awards.
An incredible group of entrepreneurs from around the world at the Santander X Global Awards.

This recognition reinforces what drives HerelleX: turning cutting-edge research into scalable solutions with global health impact.

Thank you to Santander X for this opportunity and for supporting innovation with purpose.

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Bring FluoTB to where it's needed.

The potential market is ~200,000 tests a year in Argentina and over 30 million a year across high-incidence countries — a global TB-diagnostics market projected to grow from USD 2.28B in 2024 to USD 3.18B by 2030. If accessible diagnosis is your mission too, let's talk.

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Simplified view

One sample. One test, adjusted to routine lab workflows.

A respiratory sample is processed with standard lab methods, incubated with our reagents, then fixed for safe fluorescence reading — even up to 10 days later.

01.

Decontamination

Competing flora is cleared.

02.

Infect and express

Sample meets phage reagents.

03.

Fixation

Fixed — safe to handle and store.