Centro de Pesquisa e Doenças Hepato-Renais do Ceará

Name

Centro de Pesquisa e Doenças Hepato-Renais do Ceará

Legal name

CEPHRECE - Centro de Pesquisas em Doenças Hepato-Renais do Ceará

Website

https://cephrece.org.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Fortaleza

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Municipal Health Services Management Contracts: Cephrece generates revenue through formal management contracts (Contratos de Gestão) with municipal governments in Ceará. These contracts cover the operation and administration of healthcare facilities including UPAs (emergency care units), hospitals, and basic health services. Revenue is derived from public healthcare system funding allocated by municipalities.
2. Histocompatibility Laboratory Services: Laboratory services for histocompatibility testing (HLA) and immunogenetics analysis, serving transplant patients and healthcare institutions. Services include examination reporting for organ transplantation compatibility.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CEPHRECE is a philanthropic nonprofit institution operating a Histocompatibility Laboratory that performs HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigen) testing and immunogenetics analysis for organ transplantation. The organization also manages public healthcare facilities and primary care services across multiple municipalities in the state of Ceará, Brazil, through formal management contracts with municipal governments.

Product overview

Cephrece offers two main service lines: (1) a Histocompatibility Laboratory specializing in HLA testing for organ transplantation, and (2) a Health Services Management solution providing healthcare administration across municipalities in Ceará. The organization also provides online examination results through its Sigel platform for patients, physicians, and institutions, and maintains partner and administrative portals via the Neovita platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Laboratório de Histocompatibilidade (Histocompatibility Laboratory) Specialized laboratory service performing HLA (human leukocyte antigen) histocompatibility testing for organ transplantation compatibility. Provides maintenance and administration of laboratories to ensure excellence in exam quality, including services like Virtual Epitopic Crossmatch to predict immunological reactions between donated organs and recipients. Serves transplant patients and healthcare institutions.
• Gestão na Área de Saúde (Healthcare Services Management) Comprehensive healthcare services management solution operating across multiple municipalities in the state of Ceará. Includes management of public healthcare facilities such as UPAs (emergency care units), hospitals, and primary care services. Secures contracts through public procurement processes with municipal governments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 12,000 examinations performed annually with scientific rigor and agile report issuance.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• ALR ConsultoriaminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 27 August 2025ALR Consultoria partnered with Cephrece for the Programa de Desenvolvimento de Diretores (PDD), providing leadership development and management training to directors and managers.
• Central de Transplantes do Estado do CearácoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2025Technical visit and institutional alignment to strengthen transplant policies in Ceará. The Central de Transplantes coordinates organ donation and transplantation activities in the state.
• Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio (HUwC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2025Technical visit conducted with Central de Transplantes to strengthen institutional alignment in kidney transplantation. HUwC is a major teaching hospital and transplant center in Ceará.
• Grupo PluralMedcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 July 2025Joint action with Cephrece and Prefecture Municipal of Ubajara to strengthen the Committee for Prevention of Maternal, Infant and Fetal Mortality. Grupo PluralMed coordinates Health Surveillance activities and provides technical expertise in healthcare programs.
• Prefeitura Municipal de UbajaracoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 July 2025Municipal government partner in joint healthcare initiatives including the Committee for Prevention of Maternal, Infant and Fetal Mortality. Cephrece provides specialized health services management to the municipality.
• Hospital Geral de Fortaleza (HGF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborating institution in scientific research for nephrology and transplantation. Part of multidisciplinary team contributing to transplant compatibility studies.
• Universidade de Fortaleza (Unifor)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner in scientific research collaboration for nephrology and transplant studies. Contributing to scientific production in immunogenetics and transplantation.
• Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration partner contributing to scientific production in nephrology and transplantation. Part of academic network supporting Cephrece's research initiatives.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• DASA: Brazil's largest diagnostic medicine company offering a broad portfolio of clinical laboratory and imaging services. While DASA covers a much wider diagnostic spectrum than Cephrece's specialized HLA focus, both operate medical/diagnostic laboratory businesses serving Brazilian healthcare providers and patients.
• Fleury Medicina e Saúde: Major Brazilian diagnostic laboratory chain offering clinical analysis and specialized testing across multiple states. Comparable to Cephrece as a Brazilian medical laboratory operator, though with substantially broader geographic footprint and test menu than Cephrece's histocompatibility focus.
• Hermes Pardini: Brazilian diagnostic medicine group (part of Dasa/Rede D'Or ecosystem) offering clinical laboratory services including specialized transplant-support testing. Comparable as a Brazilian medical laboratory competitor with broader geographic reach and test menu than Cephrece.
• Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein: One of Brazil's leading hospital complexes with an active transplant program and in-house immunogenetics laboratory. Comparable to Cephrece as a transplant-capable institution with HLA testing capabilities, though operating at substantially larger scale and broader service mix.
• Sabin Diagnósticos e Saúde: Brazilian diagnostic medicine company operating clinical analysis laboratories, particularly strong in the Central-West and Southeast regions. Comparable as a competing Brazilian lab services provider, though focused on broader diagnostic testing rather than HLA/transplant specialization.

Regional players

• Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais (FHEMIG): Public hospital network foundation that manages state hospitals including transplant-capable centers with associated HLA laboratory services. Comparable to Cephrece's integrated hospital-management-plus-laboratory model, though operating at state-public scale rather than via municipal OSS contracts.
• DB Diagnósticos: Brazilian diagnostic laboratory chain operating primarily in the Northeast region including Ceará. Comparable to Cephrece as a regional competitor in the same geography, though focused on general clinical diagnostics rather than HLA/transplant specialization.

Direct peers

• SPDM - Associação Paulista para o Desenvolvimento da Medicina: One of Brazil's largest philanthropic organizations managing public hospitals and healthcare units under Contratos de Gestão with state and municipal governments. Comparable to Cephrece as a direct competitor for municipal health services management contracts, though at substantially larger national scale.
• Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre: Major Brazilian teaching hospital that operates an Immunogenetics Laboratory providing HLA testing for transplant programs in Southern Brazil. Directly comparable to Cephrece as a competing HLA/transplant-focused laboratory service embedded in a leading transplant center.
• Pró-Saúde Associação Beneficente de Assistência Social e Hospitalar: Brazilian philanthropic (filantrópica) organization that manages public hospitals and healthcare facilities through OSS-style contracts with state and municipal governments. Directly comparable to Cephrece's municipal health services management arm, operating under the same non-profit/filantrópica model.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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