Medgenics Initiates U.S. Biopump Processing Site
Facility initially to supply EPODURE for U.S. anemia clinical trials
Medgenics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: MDGN and AIM: MEDU, MEDG), the developer of the novel Biopump™ technology for the sustained production and delivery of therapeutic proteins in patients using their own tissue, announced today it has initiated its first U.S. Biopump processing facility in Davis, California.
EPODURE™ Biopumps for the treatment of anemia are now being processed by the Company’s contract manufacturing organization (“CMO”) in a good manufacturing practice (“GMP”) certified facility. This marks the first Biopump processing site outside of Israel, and provides Medgenics with a significant ability to scale-up its clinical and commercial capabilities to address global therapeutic areas such as anemia and hemophilia.
- Published: 08 June 2012
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