Connemara, Ireland

Skin recovery.
Finally forward.

Epitheal is building a new kind of health company. Rooted in an apothecary tradition of compounding natural ingredients that stretches back generations. Powered by AI that learns from every product we develop, every submission we file, and every formulation decision we make.

32+
Products ready
3
Product tracks
September 2026
Store live, Phase 1

The old playbook isn't working anymore.

For decades, skin recovery has meant one of two things: steroids or antibiotics. Both are under increasing pressure. Both were designed for a different era. Neither was built as a coherent skin recovery solution.

Pharmacists have always known there was a better way. The apothecary tradition of compounding natural ingredients for wound care goes back generations. That knowledge never disappeared. It just never had the infrastructure to scale. Until now.

Antibiotic resistance is now a global threat

Routine reliance on antibiotics for skin conditions is becoming untenable. Medicine needs credible alternatives, fast.

Steroids carry real long-term consequences

Skin thinning, withdrawal reactions, and mounting concern around repeated use are driving patients and clinicians to look elsewhere.

Recovery is fragmented across too many products

Infection, inflammation, dryness, cleansing. All treated as separate problems, never as a coherent recovery pathway.

Legacy pharma has stopped innovating here

The major players keep extending old active ingredients and formats. The natural-origin, formulation-led alternative simply hasn't existed.

A new kind of skin recovery company.

Epitheal was built by pharmacists who grew up compounding natural ingredients. Not in a lab far removed from patients, but behind a counter, in a community, learning what actually worked. That craft knowledge is now the foundation of a platform designed to carry it forward at scale.

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A completely novel formulation

Developed by a compounding pharmacist drawing on a craft tradition of natural ingredient formulation. Not a reformulation of something existing. A genuinely new approach to what skin recovery can be.

02

Three tracks, one coherent brand

Medical device wound care range launching now. A regulated medicine line in development. Veterinary applications in parallel. Each track strengthens the others.

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AI that makes the next product faster

The apothecary pharmacist learned by doing, and that learning compounded over a lifetime. Epitheal encodes that same principle into a platform: every formulation decision, every submission, every finding makes the next product faster and more defensible.

We teach the AI. The AI teaches us back.

The apothecary pharmacist knew things that never made it into a textbook. Which combinations worked. Which didn't. Why a formulation behaved differently in different conditions. That knowledge lived in hands and memory. Epitheal is building the platform that captures it, connects it to the latest published research and patents, and turns it into a compounding advantage that grows with every product.

Epitheal knowledge loop diagram A circular diagram showing how expert knowledge feeds into the AI platform, which then accelerates product development and feeds new learning back into the team SECURE INTEL PLATFORM 🧑‍⚕️ Team Knowledge Pharmacist, regulatory and procurement expertise Published Research EPO · USPTO · PubMed EMA guidelines Faster Products Each formulation built on everything learned before Smarter Submissions 170-document dossier automated and improving compounds knowledge in research in intelligence out intelligence out
Faster market entry
Regulatory submission timelines compressed by AI-assisted dossier automation
Learning compounds
Every product, submission and expert session makes the platform and team more capable
EU
Data stays in Europe
Storage, inference, AI. Every layer of the platform hosted within EU jurisdiction

Building in the right order.

We're not waiting to be ready. The platform is live, the products are in motion, and the commercial foundation is being built now. Deliberately, before the higher-value medicine launch.

Now through H2 2026
Medical Device Range

32 wound care SKUs ready for market. Launching through pharmacy and ecommerce channels to build brand presence, pharmacy relationships, and commercial proof.

In progress
H1 2027
Medicine Dossier Complete

Core regulatory dossier preparation complete. Manufacturing readiness confirmed. Expert-reviewed claims substantiation finalised.

Planned
H2 2027
First Medicine Product Launch

NúvaMend, the first regulated Epitheal medicine, launches subject to approval. Creates a repeatable pathway for future regulated skin recovery products.

Planned
Live now
Platform Infrastructure

Backend API, database, and authentication live on EU-hosted infrastructure. Knowledge capture sessions underway with the full team.

Live
Phase 2. Late 2026
Research Agent

First AI agent live: automatic patent and literature search against Epitheal's product set. Months of manual research compressed into hours.

Building
Phase 3. 2027
Regulatory AI

170-document medicine submission automated. The full regulatory dossier, populated by AI using structured product and research data.

Planned

Built by people who know the work.

Every decision at Epitheal is grounded in real-world pharmacist and pharma industry experience. This isn't a tech company that discovered healthcare.

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JP Prendergast
Founder and CEO

Founder profile and background to be added. Commercial leadership across pharma and innovation sectors.

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Michael McLoughlin
Co-Founder, Formulations

Compounding pharmacist whose practice stretches back to a tradition of preparing natural remedies by hand. The formulation knowledge at the heart of Epitheal began at his bench.

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Pat McLoughlin
Co-Founder, Manufacturing and Regulatory

30 years across pharma manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and governance. Former executive at BBraun Ireland and GSK Ireland.

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Emmet Noone
Pharma Regulatory Lead

Leads the medicine regulatory submission programme. Expert on the full 170-document dossier pathway.

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Maria McLoughlin
Business and Strategy

Business strategy, marketing, and new product development. Coordinating the commercial launch programme.

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Michael Leonard
Procurement

Procurement and Chinese manufacturing relationships. Overseeing the winner product range and supply chain.

Get in touch

Interested in Epitheal?

Whether you're a potential investor, pharmacy partner, or just want to understand what we're building, we'd like to hear from you.

platform@epitheal.com

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