Launches October 1, 2018
COLUMBIA, Md., Sept. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.(NASDAQ: OSIR), a regenerative medicine company focused on developing and marketing products for wound care, orthopedics, and sports medicine, announces that GrafixPL PRIME™, a human placental membrane that can be stored at ambient temperatures, launches for sale on October 1, 2018. The structural matrix, growth factors, and cell viability of GrafixPL PRIME is equivalent to those of Grafix®, a cryopreserved placental membrane, but without the constraints of ultra-low temperature storage.
GrafixPL PRIME is processed using Prestige LyotechnologySM, which is Osiris’s preservation technique for ambient storage of living tissues. GrafixPL PRIME is flexible and conforming and designed as a wound cover/barrier for application directly to hard-to-treat acute and chronic wounds, including but not limited to diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers and thermal burns.
Jason Keefer, Interim President and CEO said: “I am pleased to announce that our ambient temperature stable GrafixPL PRIME product will be available in all settings of care, in addition to our cryopreserved Grafix products … read more