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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Orgenesis Inc. (otcqb:ORGS), a leader in the emerging fields of cellular therapy and re-generative medicine today announced that its Belgian subsidiary, Orgenesis SPRL, has signed a strategic agreement with MaSTherCell SA of Gosselies, Belgium. Orgenesis believes that the agreement will enable Orgenesis to advance its manufacturing (GMP) process from lab scale to clinical scale as it prepares for Phase I and Phase II clinical trials.
"The team at MaSTherCell has the right mix of capabilities, experience, technology and manufacturing processes in place to make it a natural fit for Orgenesis and will give us scalability in our efforts to have a significant impact on Type 1 diabetes," said Jacob BenArie, CEO of Orgenesis Ltd. and Orgenesis SPRL. "We wanted a partner with a centrally located facility in Europe. MaSTherCell is located in the Walloon region of Belgium with access to a large biotech talent pool which they may tap into as we scale up our operations and activities."
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/or...ing-liver-cells-to-combat-diabetes-2014-07-07
"The team at MaSTherCell has the right mix of capabilities, experience, technology and manufacturing processes in place to make it a natural fit for Orgenesis and will give us scalability in our efforts to have a significant impact on Type 1 diabetes," said Jacob BenArie, CEO of Orgenesis Ltd. and Orgenesis SPRL. "We wanted a partner with a centrally located facility in Europe. MaSTherCell is located in the Walloon region of Belgium with access to a large biotech talent pool which they may tap into as we scale up our operations and activities."
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/or...ing-liver-cells-to-combat-diabetes-2014-07-07