Cassava Pharma USA Commercializes It’s 2024 Patented Invention.

Cassava Pharma Founder/CEO has announced that the Company has commercialized its groundbreaking patented invention titled “Partially Pregelatinized Cassava {Tapioca} Starch As Pharmaceutical Excipient”.

The specially Tapioca Starch products 3780GG, 0044GG, 065GG & 2060GG offer low cost, multifunctional application in cosmetic/Skincare, Food, Pharma, Nutra & Veterinary industry while maintaining high quality and clean label/ regulatory status.

U.S Based Nigeria Researcher, Patrick Chukwuemeka Okoye, was awarded First U.S Patent On Modified Cassava Starch For Pharmaceutical Use In Medicine on Nov 5, 2024.

Through his combination of diligent work and pharmaceutics knowledge, Patrick Chukwuemeka Okoye, PhD, has been awarded the first U.S Patent on Modified Cassava Starch for Pharmaceutical Use in medicines

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He cited the “use of modified starches in nutraceutical, animal feed, cosmetic and pharmaceutical drug making…. It is increasingly common as these ingredients serve as binders, disintegrating agents and fillers for cosmetics products, drug tablets and capsules.“

Patrick Chukwuemeka Okoye spoke to Elorablog last year 2024 where he shared more details about his research., following his U.S. Patent on Specialty Cassava (Tapioca) Starch Ingredient.

Nov 2025 (one year later), he has launched the invention as a commercial product, by kicking off a multi-city global debut across U.S. and Europe!

Speaking about the patent, he created modified cassava starch that performs better than other modified starches when used in medicines, and he spoke on how he achieved it.

Patrick C Okoye Says he focused on finding alternatives to expensive ingredients that’s used today to produce medicines, and then he also wanted to empower the local farming communities by focusing on how to reduce material food waste.

The future for the medicine on this invention is to see this as the door-opener for the global farming communities to recognize the importance of neglected food items to medicine.

Patrick noted that today in Nigeria, about 20% of usable cassava starch is wasted due to poor storage and post-harvest inefficiencies, this waste translate up to sixty (60) billion dollars worth of cough medicines.

Patrick Okoye graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in the 1992 with a degree in Pharmacy.

After moving to the USA, he continued his research at the Long Island University, New York and earned doctorate degrees in Pharmaceutics in 2014.

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Source: Patrick Okoye| LinkedIn

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