Vericel

Vericel Corp. engages in the research, product development, manufacture, and distribution of patient-specific, expanded cellular therapies for use in the treatment of patients with diseases. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and currently employs 398 full-time employees. The firm is a provider of advanced therapies for the sports medicine and severe burn care markets. The company markets three products in the United States. MACI (autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane) 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 (cultured epidermal autografts) is a permanent skin replacement for the treatment of patients with deep dermal or full-thickness burns greater than or equal to 30% of total body surface area. The firm also holds a license for North American rights to NexoBrid (anacaulase-bcdb), a biological orphan product containing proteolytic enzymes, which is indicated for the removal of eschar in adult and pediatric patients with deep partial thickness and/or full-thickness thermal burns.