Press Release
BD™ PuraMatrix™ Synthetic Hydrogels Featured in
BD Biosciences Inaugural Web Seminar Series
Cambridge , Mass. – July 25, 2005 – BD™ PuraMatrix™ Synthetic Hydrogels, one of the award-winning biomaterials from 3DM, Inc., will be featured in BD Bioscience Discovery Labware’s inaugural Web Seminar Series. The seminar will focus on the use of PuraMatrix™ as a novel synthetic extracellular matrix analogue, enabling improvements across applications such as defined cell-based assays for drug discovery and stem cell research, 3-D cell culture, cellular microenvironment studies, bioproduction and tissue engineering.
BD Biosciences PuraMatrix™ Webinar
Wednesday, July
27, 2005 11:00
AM Eastern Time. 17:00 Central
European Time
http://www.bdbiosciences.com/discovery_labware/webinar/
“This web seminar, available to a worldwide audience, addresses the growing trend replacing animal-derived materials with synthetic alternatives to create defined and reproducible microenvironments and cell-based assays,” stated Zen Chu, President and Co-founder of 3DM Inc. “Research leaders at the NIH and big pharma state that a high priority has been placed on defined cell culture reagents to lend better control over experiments and forward compatibility with in vivo experiments. We believe that PuraMatrix™ will be a key enabler of this trend.”
The National Institutes of Health has recently announced creation of a Nanomedicine Roadmap Initiative along with Nanomedicine Development Centers. These initiatives will focus on nanotechnology applications to enable new modes of in medical research and clinical treatment. PuraMatrix™ nano-fibrillar scaffolds, too small to be made by any process other than molecular self-assembly, are critical to these initiatives. Numerous NIH grants have been awarded to studies centered around the use of PuraMatrix™ scaffolds.
“Over the past two years, PuraMatrix™ has become the best-selling synthetic scaffold for in vitro and in vivo drug discovery research world wide.” stated Dr. Shuguang Zhang, Director of the Lab for Molecular Self-Assembly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “PuraMatrix™, and its family of customizable self-assembling peptides, was carefully designed as an ideal biocompatible synthetic scaffold, compatible across the entire range of drug discovery and clinical delivery applications. The success of PuraMatrix™ by the drug discovery and bioproduction community has validated PuraMatrix™’s advantages and the key requirement for 3-C cell culture techniques.”
About PuraMatrix™
PuraMatrix™ Synthetic Peptide Hydrogels are the best-selling synthetic scaffolds for cell culture and bioproduction research, and have won numerous scientific awards. PuraMatrix™ gels consist of smart polymers, self-assembling in cell culture or in vivo to create biocompatible nanofiber scaffolds to facilitate healthy cell growth and tissue regeneration. PuraMatrix™ is currently in animal testing for orthopedics, cardiac and other medical device and drug delivery applications. PuraMatrix™ is used by most of the leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic laboratories and has been featured in over twenty premier scientific journal publications. R&D Magazine recently awarded PuraMatrix™ its 42nd annual R&D 100 Prize as one of the most significant new products to impact life science and medical research.
About 3DM Inc.
3DM is a privately-held specialty biomaterials and medical device company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 3DM has partnered with BD Biosciences for marketing PuraMatrix™ worldwide to the life science research and drug discovery communities. 3DM is further developing their self-assembling peptide hydrogels as medical devices in orthopedics, cardiovascular therapies and drug delivery applications. The patented technology, exclusively licensed from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was pioneered at MIT through the work and expertise of Drs. Shuguang Zhang, Alan Grodzinsky, Robert Langer, Alexander Rich, Carlos Semino and Lisa Spirio.
Source: 3DM Inc. WWW.PURAMATRIX.COM
Contact: Zen Chu , President 877-430-9595 contact@puramatrix.com