Celavista Group · Nature & Beyond

Forty years of science from nature. Now a group.

A family of science companies built on one conviction: nature, combined with human knowledge, can solve problems that neither can solve alone.

The group behindCelavista Mito‑BiogenesisAircuretechAIONSIGHTThe Life Project
CLCelavista LaboratoriesPARENT COMPANYCelavista Laboratories · Parent companyMBMito‑BiogenesisON THE MARKETMito‑Biogenesis · On the marketLPThe Life ProjectCLINICAL BRANDThe Life Project · Clinical brandATAdvanced TherapyRESEARCHAdvanced Therapy · ResearchAIAIONSIGHTCLINICAL STAGE · ASSOCIATEDAIONSIGHT · Clinical stage · associatedNMNaturemimetixINTEGRATED 2021Naturemimetix · Integrated 2021ACAircuretechDEVELOPMENT · ASSOCIATEDAircuretech · Development · associatedPEPhytoEnhancerDEVELOPMENTPhytoEnhancer · DevelopmentCNCelavista ChinaPLANNED · 2027Celavista China · Planned · 2027

The record

Forty years of work before the first press release.

Celavista has manufactured for more than thirty years. Innovation always came first: the aim has been the best product possible, or nothing. Every figure below is the group's own, and every designation can be checked in its public register.

~40years studying the mitochondrion
20+years developing Retriacyl
100+products developed and marketed
70+brands in the U.S. and Europe
30+products in the current portfolio
2006EMA orphan designation · Retriacyl
2014FDA orphan drug designation · Retriacyl
FEI 3027397746FDA‑registered facility · Leioa, Spain

The method · Nature + Human Knowledge

Nature is the most advanced laboratory on Earth. It has been running experiments for 4,540 million years.

We do not try to copy it in the lab, and we do not reverse‑engineer it. We observe it deeply, with the tools of physics and chemistry, and apply what we understand. We call this Naturemimetic Science. The laws of physics and chemistry explain how life is partly created; they let us build products that are fast, safe, self‑regulated, adapted, and ready to evolve.

BIOGENESIS · PEAK AT ~25 YEARS

Energy is the limiting factor

Protein markers and gene transcription are profoundly limited by the bioenergetic activity of each tissue. Our premise differs from today's genetic and epigenetic focus: the limiting factor is energy, which follows the laws of physics, as described by Peter Mitchell's chemiosmotic theory.

OXYGEN IN · ENERGY AND WATER OUT

The cell's energy engine

For nearly 40 years we have studied the mitochondrion as the basis of the body's responses to life, degenerative disease and ageing, and put that knowledge into practice in our products. It generates cellular power by breathing oxygen and producing water.

STRUCTURAL LIPIDS · DHA

Physics, energy and lipids

Physics and energy govern life. They condition DNA, evolution, adaptation, ageing and the response of every cell. The lipids of all living organisms are governed by the thermodynamics of their fatty acids within their environment.

Our principles and our vision in health

Seeing for the first time

Every so often, humanity sees something it had never seen. Our work happens at those scales.

Hooke's engraving of cork cells, 1665
FIG. 1 · 1665The cell

Robert Hooke looks at a sliver of cork and draws small chambers. He calls them cells.

Micrographia, Schem. XI · public domain
Röntgen's first X-ray, a hand with a ring, 1895
FIG. 2 · 1895Inside, without opening

Wilhelm Röntgen photographs the bones of his wife's hand. Medicine sees inside the body for the first time.

Physik. Institut Würzburg · public domain
Ramón y Cajal's ink drawing of a Purkinje cell
FIG. 3 · 1899The neuron

Santiago Ramón y Cajal draws, by hand, a Purkinje cell. The brain turns out to be made of individual cells.

Instituto Cajal · public domain
Transmission electron micrograph of a mitochondrion
FIG. 4 · 1952 → TODAYThe mitochondrion

George Palade sees the folds of the cell's energy engine in 1952. This is how it looks today under the electron microscope.

TEM, Dartmouth EM Facility · public domain
IBM's atomic force microscope image of a pentacene molecule, 2009
FIG. 5 · 2009A molecule

IBM Research images a single pentacene molecule, atom by atom. Chemistry becomes visible.

IBM Research Zurich
Reconstructed image of two entangled photons, resembling a yin-yang, 2023
FIG. 6 · 2023Two entangled photons

Researchers in Ottawa and Rome reconstruct the shared state of two photons. It looks like a yin‑yang.

Zia et al., Nature Photonics · uOttawa / Sapienza

The group

One philosophy, several fields. Each company applies the same formula to a different challenge.

CLCelavista LaboratoriesPARENT COMPANYCelavista Laboratories · Parent companyMBMito‑BiogenesisON THE MARKETMito‑Biogenesis · On the marketLPThe Life ProjectCLINICAL BRANDThe Life Project · Clinical brandATAdvanced TherapyRESEARCHAdvanced Therapy · ResearchAIAIONSIGHTCLINICAL STAGE · ASSOCIATEDAIONSIGHT · Clinical stage · associatedNMNaturemimetixINTEGRATED 2021Naturemimetix · Integrated 2021ACAircuretechDEVELOPMENT · ASSOCIATEDAircuretech · Development · associatedPEPhytoEnhancerDEVELOPMENTPhytoEnhancer · DevelopmentCNCelavista ChinaPLANNED · 2027Celavista China · Planned · 2027

The structure above is a purine ring: the double ring at the core of ATP, the molecule in which the mitochondrion stores the cell's energy. It has nine atoms. So does the group: six in the hexagon, three in the pentagon that Celavista and Naturemimetix share with Aircuretech.

On the marketDevelopmentClinical stageResearchPlanned

Celavista Laboratories Corp

Parent company of the group · Delaware corporation · Austin, Texas

PARENT · EST. OCTOBER 31, 2025
On the market

Celavista Mito‑Biogenesis

The group's pharmaceutical company in Spain. Manufacturing, warehousing and distribution at the UPV Science Park, Leioa. FDA‑registered facility; member of ASEBIO. More than 30 products in the portfolio.

SPAIN · PHARMARead more →
Development

Aircuretech

U.S. company associated with Celavista Laboratories. Biomimetic carbon‑capture technology that originated at Naturemimetix. Led by CEO Joan Puig.

USA · DEEP TECHRead more →
Development

Aircure PhytoEnhancer

The Aircuretech company preparing to manufacture its first product for the agri‑food sector.

USA · AGRI‑FOODRead more →
Clinical stage

AIONSIGHT

Associated company, co‑founded with Celavista. Advanced clinical ophthalmology, led by Dr. Adolfo Vivar Badía, Barcelona.

SPAIN · OPHTHALMOLOGYRead more →
Clinical stage

The Life Project

The group's clinical brand: immediate‑action programmes on healthy ageing across clinical, pharma, nutrigenomics and advanced therapies.

CLINICAL BRANDRead more →
Research

Artificial Mitochondrial Engineering

Advanced therapy: synthetic or engineered organelles for cells, tissues and organs, and free mitochondria not linked to cells.

ADVANCED THERAPYRead more →
Research

Naturemimetix

Nature & Beyond. Creator of the epimimetic concept; integrated into the group in 2021. Scientific partners: CSIC‑INMA and the University of Navarra.

EPIMIMETICS · INTEGRATED 2021Read more →
Planned · 2027

Celavista China

A project planned for 2027. We are seeking partners worldwide in neuro‑ophthalmology and in ageing and longevity to help shape it from its earliest stages.

CHINA · 2027Partner with us →

The author

Nature gives the answer many times before we even start to understand the molecule or the technology.
José M. Cela López · Founder & President, Celavista Group · Inventor, patent family WO2010118761

Celavista is the story of a founder and an idea. José M. Cela López has spent his career building companies at the meeting point of nature and science, from clinical and veterinary reference laboratories to pharmaceutical, nutrition and technology companies in Ireland, Spain and the United States.

A pioneer in lipidomics and an expert in rare and neurodegenerative diseases, he has lectured at the University of the Basque Country, the University of Barcelona and Complutense University of Madrid. For more than 15 years he has developed products, under confidentiality agreements, for leading companies of the global pharmaceutical industry.

Leadership

  1. 2006

    Retriacyl's science recognised with an EMA orphan designation.

  2. 2014

    Retriacyl's science recognised with an FDA Orphan Drug Designation (May 21).

  3. 2021

    Naturemimetix integrated into the group; its technology gives rise to Aircuretech.

  4. 2025

    Celavista Laboratories Corp incorporated in Delaware (October 31); parent company based in Austin, Texas.

  5. 2027

    Celavista China (planned).

Updates

  • AUG 12, 2025IBTimes · “When Emissions Become Assets: Aircure Tech Seeking Strategic Partnership”
  • SEP 25, 2024AseBio · Aircure succeeds in halving CO₂ emissions from plants

All updates →

Events

No upcoming events.

Institutions & recognition

  • EMA · 2006Orphan designation for Retriacyl.
  • FDA · 2014Orphan Drug Designation for Retriacyl (May 21). Retriacyl is not approved by the FDA.
  • FDACelavista Mito‑Biogenesis is an FDA‑registered facility (FEI 3027397746).
  • ASEBIOMember, Spanish Bioindustry Association (Biomedical area).
  • PARTNERSCSIC‑INMA and the University of Navarra (Naturemimetix).

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Contact

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