Description
Vericel Corporation is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on therapies for the sports medicine and severe burn care markets.
It markets two autologous cell therapy products in the United States, which include MACI (autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane) and Epicel (cultured epidermal autografts). MACI is an autologous cellularized scaffold product indicated for the repair of symptomatic, single or multiple full-thickness cartilage defects of the knee with or without bone involvement in adults.
Epicel is a permanent skin replacement humanitarian use device (HUD) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with deep-dermal or full-thickness burns comprising greater than or equal to 30% of total body surface area (TBSA). Its NexoBrid, is a registration-stage, topically administered biological product that enzymatically removes nonviable burn tissue, or eschar, in patients with deep partial and full-thickness thermal burns.
