Frequency Therapeutics named its board of directors last week, the company’s 1st public move since it was founded in 2015. Marc Cohen of COBRO Ventures was named chairman. Founder and former CEO of Sepracor, Inc., joined the board as well as Marc Kozin, senior advisor and former president of L.E.K. Consulting. Robert Langer, who co-founded […]
Regenerative Medicine
Apligraf cell therapy changes genomic profile of chronic wound
Organogenesis Inc. said yesterday that its wound-healing cell therapy Apligraf is the 1st of its kind to significantly change the genomic profile of a treated chronic wound. The claim was supported by new research done at the University of Miami and published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The team applied Apligraf to a chronic venous leg […]
InGeneron inks collaboration with German Accelerator Life Sciences
InGeneron said today that it landed a collaboration with the German Accelerator Life Sciences program, establishing an additional U.S. presence in Cambridge, Mass. The initiative is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs & Energy. The GALS program will provide InGeneron with a group of mentors to help leverage its network within the […]
Cytori touts regenerative cell therapy data
Cytori Therapeutics (NSDQ:CYTX) touted the publication of preclinical safety and efficacy data for its cell therapy treatment for combined radiation and thermal injury. The San Diego-based company said the current healthcare system is ill-prepared to care for large numbers of patients that require simultaneous treatment and that patients with severe burns commonly suffer with prolonged […]
Bioprinted 3D renal architecture recapitulates kidney function
Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have bioprinted a functional 3D renal architecture with living human epithelial cells. Previously, the team bioprinted tissue constructs made of living cells alongside a vascular network in an extracellular matrix. These constructs are functional in vitro for more than a month. “The current work […]