Author: Jane Griffin

Ossium Presents at Organ Donation Congress

Kevin Caldwell, Ossium’s CEO, Co-Founder & President, recently presented an update on our bone marrow transplant study at the 2023 Congress of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement. As Kevin explains in the presentation, the initiation of this clinical study is an important step toward our goal of dramatically expanding access to life-saving bone marrow transplants for blood cancer patients and enabling these procedures to be used far more broadly in the future. With our bone marrow available on-demand, patients can bypass the lengthy and uncertain process of identifying a living donor. Furthermore, patients will benefit from improved treatment outcomes due to the ability to obtain an optimized dose specific to their size and condition with lower T-cell counts.

“Our goal is to show that there’s no tradeoff between increasing the accessibility of a treatment, increasing the affordability of a treatment, and increasing the quality of a treatment. We really are shooting for all three,” summarized Kevin.

The presentation also includes an overview of Ossium’s studies of Graft-versus-Host Disease treatment and solid organ transplant tolerance induction.

Watch the full presentation below.

First Patient Treated with OssiGraft

Ossium Health announced today that the first patient has been treated with its newly released OssiGraft™ viable bone matrix (VBM) allograft in an ankle surgery. OssiGraft is Ossium’s viable bone matrix allograft, which is intended for use in orthopedic surgery to repair, replace, or reconstruct bone defects. This surgery represents Ossium’s transition from a clinical-stage company to a commercial company as well as its introduction to the orthopedic biologics market.

Read the press release here.

Healio Article Highlights PRESERVE I Study

The first-in-human study of Ossium’s bone marrow (PRESERVE I) was recently featured in an article published by Healio, a major medical news source for healthcare professionals. The article includes an interview with Kevin Caldwell, CEO, Co-Founder & President of Ossium Health, and Erin Leckrone, Vice President of Clinical Trials at the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)/Be The Match. In the interview, Caldwell and Leckrone outline the goals of the Ossium-NMDP/Be The Match partnership, including how the organizations plan to work together to fill unmet needs in hematopoietic cell transplantation. “We are dedicated to partnering with organizations like Ossium, who have innovative products that could potentially fill the unmet needs in transplantation,” said Leckrone. Leckrone goes on to explain how the clinical study data will be leveraged to drive the integration of Ossium’s bone marrow into the NMDP/Be The Match registry, facilitating seamless access for transplant centers in the future. 

Read the full article and interview here.

Ossium Health Featured in Nasdaq Live from MarketSite

Kevin Caldwell, CEO, Co-Founder & President of Ossium Health, recently sat down for an interview with Nasdaq’s Kristina Ayanian at their New York headquarters. In the interview, Kevin explained how Ossium is leveraging its organ donor-derived bone marrow platform to improve the accessibility and quality of leukemia treatments today and develop innovative therapies for organ rejection and orthopedic applications tomorrow.

See the full interview below.