Vericel

Vericel Corp is engaged in the development of treatments for critical cardiovascular diseases.

Vericel (formerly Aastrom Biosciences) is developing patient-specific expanded cellular therapies for use in the treatment of patients with severe diseases and conditions. Aastrom markets two autologous cell therapy products in the United States for the treatment of cartilage repair and skin replacement. Aastrom is also developing MACI, a third-generation autologous chondrocyte implantation product for the treatment of focal chondral cartilage defects in the knee, and ixmyelocel-T, a patient-specific multicellular therapy for the treatment of advanced heart failure due to ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy.