Category Archives: vascular regeneration

New Vascular Closure Devices Aim to Gain Bigger Piece of Endovascular Device Market

Posted on February 24, 2008 by shsiong

by Susan Hsiong, PhD More than 12 million minimally invasive vascular surgeries are done every year. These procedures require catheterization of major blood vessels to gain access to the vasculature. While catheter technology has dramatically improved, closure of the vessel … Continue reading →

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Tengion Pioneers Autologous Tissue Engineered Regenerative Medicine Products

Posted on January 29, 2008 by jrowley

You have to hand it to Tengion, they are trying to tackle one of the largest challenges I can think of: producing tissue engineered organs and tissues from a patients own cells in unrelated indications (bladder, blood vessel, and kidney). … Continue reading →

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Pervasis Advances Tissue Engineered Products for Vascular Health

Posted on January 22, 2008 by jrowley

Pervasis Therapeutics announced that they have raised $9.75M to further develop their allogenic tissue engineered endothelial cell (EC) product for vascular health indications. Their Vascugel product is comprised of ECs grown in 3D collagen sponges that are implanted externally on … Continue reading →

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