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Gene therapy for long-term treatment of GSDIa

Gene therapy for long-term treatment of GSDIa

Unmet Need Glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSDIa), or von Gierke disease, is a rare heritable metabolic disorder that impacts the liver and kidneys due to an inability to break down glycogen. An estimated 1…

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Methods and formulation to improve cellular survival of thawing after cryopreservation

Methods and formulation to improve cellular survival of thawing after cryopreservation

Unmet Need Cryopreservation is the main method of long-term storage and transport of living cells, and it is used for cell lines and patient samples such as stem cells, CAR-T cells, bone marrow, cord blood,…

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Tunable elastomer-like polymers for use in soft tissue regeneration and drug delivery

Tunable elastomer-like polymers for use in soft tissue regeneration and drug delivery

Unmet Need Biodegradable synthetic polymers are often used as scaffolding or support materials in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, many of the materials that have been used widely, such as PLLA and PCL, do…

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Biodegradable, elastomeric copolymers that can be used in continuous digital light processing 3D printing applications

Biodegradable, elastomeric copolymers that can be used in continuous digital light processing 3D printing applications

Unmet Need The global market for 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is growing rapidly with a compound annual growth rate of approximately 22.0% predicted to occur until 2024. Medical and dental products account for about…

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Biomaterial therapy for healing brain tissue after ischemic stroke

Biomaterial therapy for healing brain tissue after ischemic stroke

Unmet Need Ischemic stroke affects 692,000 patients annually in the United States, and can result in paralysis and complications related to cognition and motor function. After a stroke, scarring and atrophy can occur at the…

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Biomaterial pouch for long-term xenogeneic cell transplantation

Biomaterial pouch for long-term xenogeneic cell transplantation

Unmet Need Cell therapy is an exciting therapeutic approach that is growing rapidly – there are more than 1,000 cell therapy clinical trials that are currently active in many different fields like oncology, neurology, hematology,…

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A method for treating critical limb ischemia and other ischemic injuries

A method for treating critical limb ischemia and other ischemic injuries

Unmet Need The most severe stage of peripheral artery disease, a chronic vascular disease characterized by impaired circulation to patients’ lower extremities, is critical limb ischemia (CLI), and it affects approximately two million people in…

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An injectable hydrogel scaffold that delivers gene therapies locally

An injectable hydrogel scaffold that delivers gene therapies locally

Unmet Need Gene therapy has applications ranging from tissue engineering to vaccine development to infectious disease. Most approaches to deliver nucleic material involve the systemic intravenous delivery of condensed nucleic acid (e.g., within a virus…

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An implanted biomaterial to accelerate bone healing

An implanted biomaterial to accelerate bone healing

Unmet Need A leading concept in regenerative medicine is transplantation of tissue-specific cells, often supported with biomaterials, to promote tissue repair. While this strategy has achieved some success, its broad clinical application is hindered by…

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Genetically encoded hybrid biomaterials that are thermally responsive and tunable

Genetically encoded hybrid biomaterials that are thermally responsive and tunable

Unmet Need Developing new biomaterials is an active area of research, with applications in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and drug-delivery. In particular, protein- and peptide-based materials are attractive candidates for these applications because of their…

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Methods for ablating niche cells in testis

Methods for ablating niche cells in testis

Value Proposition Infertility affects 10-15% of couples and up to 50% of these cases are due to the male partner. While the largest proportion (30%) of these cases are idiopathic with no known causes and…

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