GERMANTOWN, MD--(Marketwired - Oct 20, 2016) - Orgenesis Inc. (
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About Orgenesis Inc.
Orgenesis is a fully integrated cell therapy and regenerative medicine company. The Company is providing manufacturing services for other cell therapy markets in such areas as cell-based cancer immunotherapies and autoimmune diseases. In addition, through its subsidiary, Orgenesis Ltd, the Company is developing a cure for diabetes using a novel "cellular trans-differentiation" technology that transforms an insulin-dependent patient's own adult cells into functional insulin producing cells. The Company has demonstrated that, when exposed ex-vivo to certain pancreatic transcription factors and in specific sequence, human adult cells can be transformed into fully functional, beta cell-like insulin producing cells. Orgenesis Ltd has an exclusive license from Tel Hashomer Hospital for intellectual property directed to the cellular trans-differentiating technology.
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