Orisis Therapeutics Introduces TruSkin

Osiris Therapeutics (NASDAQ:OSIR) is a cellular regenerative medicine company focused on developing products to treat conditions in wound care, orthopaedics and sports medicine. Today, the company announced the launch of TruSkin, a cryopreserved, living skin allograft.
According to the press release:

TruSkin has been developed to provide healthcare professionals a new option for treating large, chronic wounds in the Hospital Outpatient, Private Office, and/or Surgical Settings, where allograft options are limited and reimbursement pressures are high. Specifically in the HOPD setting, it has become common to relegate product usage to those products that are under their assigned bundled payment amounts. Currently, patients with larger wounds are limited in the offerings of advanced skin substitutes. Osiris’ strategy is to provide a larger-sized, high quality graft that fits within the Medicare bundled payment amounts to ensure that providers have an Osiris product option despite wound size. Osiris’ large TruSkin allograft will ensure that physicians have a larger-sized, high quality graft for patients regardless of wound size.
Standard industry processing and cryopreservation methods for skin allografts were optimized by Osiris to maximize post-thaw cell viability. Characterization studies demonstrate that the new proprietary TruSkin process maintains key structural and functional properties of fresh skin allografts to promote proper wound closure. Consistent with its evidence based approach, Osiris plans to introduce a robust scientific and clinical program for TruSkin, including multiple randomized controlled trials, comparative studies, case studies, and clinical and scientific posters and abstracts.

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