PETACH TIKVA, Israel, April 13, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Macrocure Ltd. (Nasdaq:MCUR), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing a novel therapeutic platform to address chronic and hard-to-heal wounds, today announced that it will participate in the upcoming Symposium on Advanced Wound Care from April 29 – May 3, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas.
Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC)
Website: http://www.sawc.net/spring/
Lunch Symposium Supported by Macrocure:
- Title: CureXcell®: The Next Generation of Advanced Living Cell-Based Therapy in Wound Healing
- Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015
- Time: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
- Venue: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX
- Presenter(s): Robert Kirsner, MD, PhD and William W. Li, MD
Poster Presentation:
- Title: BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF A LIVING HUMAN ACTIVATED LEUKOCYTE SUSPENSION (LHALS) AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH WOUND HEALING AND TISSUE REMODELING
- Number: P.ET04
- Author(s): P. Naumenko1, V. Shah1, W. W. Li2, M. Molyneaux1, A. Zuloff-Shani1 ; 1Macrocure, Ltd., Research & Development, Tenafly, NJ, USA; 2The Angiogenesis Foundation, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Date: Friday, May 1, 2015
- Time: 7:15 pm – 8:30 pm at Poster Gala/Awards Session
- Venue: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX
Oral Abstract:
- Title: WOUND HEALING ACCELERATION BY LIVING HUMAN ACTIVATED LEUKOCYTE SUSPENSION (LHALS) IN A SPLINTED FULL-THICKNESS DERMAL WOUND MODEL IN ATHYMIC RATS
- Number: N1.04
- Author(s): V. R. Shah1, A. Zuloff-Shani1, W. W. Li2, M. Molyneaux1 ; 1Macrocure, Ltd., Research & Development, Tenafly, NJ, USA; 2The Angiogenesis Foundation, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Moderators: Timothy Koh, PhD; Kara Spiller, PhD
- Date: Saturday, May 2, 2015
- Time: 11:06 am
- Venue: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX
About Macrocure Ltd.
Macrocure Ltd. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing a novel therapeutic platform to address chronic and hard-to-heal wounds, such as DFUs and VLUs. The Company's novel approach is to treat and close chronic and other hard-to-heal wounds by injecting the human body's own wound healing and regenerative components directly into the wound itself.
About CureXcell
Macrocure's lead product candidate, CureXcell, is a unique combination of living human white blood cells that have been activated to facilitate the healing process and stimulate wound closure. CureXcell addresses each phase of healing in the impaired wound, including the production of growth factors and other biochemical factors involved in fibroblast activation, cell migration and extracellular matrix production, stimulating the body's natural healing process. CureXcell is currently in two pivotal, Phase III, double-blind clinical trials targeting a broad indication for the treatment of all types of wounds below the knee. For more information, please visit: www.macrocure.com.
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