MiMedx Group, Inc
MiMedx Group, Inc. develops and distributes placental tissue allografts for various sectors of healthcare. The company processes the human placental tissues membrane, and umbilical cord and the placental disc utilizing its patented and proprietary PURION process to produce allografts that retains the tissue's inherent biological properties and regulatory proteins, including cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors. Its patented and proprietary processing method employs aseptic processing techniques in addition to terminal sterilization. The company's wound care products include EPIFIX, EPICORD, and EPIEFFECT sheets for use as protective barriers that enables a healthcare provider to select an appropriate size graft based on the size of the wound to reduce product waste. Its surgical and other product offerings consist of AMNIOFIX and AMNIOEFFECT for applications in a variety of applications and surgical settings, including lower extremity repair, plastic surgery, vascular surgery, and various orthopedic repairs and reconstructions. The company's products are used in the areas of wound care, burn, and surgical fields in healthcare. It sells its products through direct sales force and independent sales agents, as well as to individual customers and independent distributors in the United States. The company has a strategic alliance with Vaporox, Inc. for the promotion of their wound care offerings. MiMedx Group, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Marietta, Georgia.
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Verastem, Inc., a development-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and commercializing drugs for the treatment of cancer in the United States. Its product candidates are Avutometinib, an orally available small molecule RAF/MEK clamp that inhibits the ras sarcoma RAF/MEK, ERK mitogen activated pathway kinase pathway which is involved in cell proliferation, migration, transformation, and survival of tumor cells; and Defactinib, an oral small molecule inhibitor of FAK and proline-rich tyrosine kinase for various solid tumors. The company is involved in clinical studies, including RAMP 301, a randomized global confirmatory trial to evaluate the combination of Avutometinib and Defactinib for the treatment of patients with recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer; RAMP 201, an adaptive two-part multicenter, parallel cohort, randomized open label trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Avutometinib and in combination with Defactinib; and FRAME, an investigation of Avutometinib and Defactinib in patients with KRAS mutant cancers and subsequent analyses; and RAMP 204 and 205. It has license agreements with Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for the development, commercialization, and manufacture of products containing Avutometinib; and Pfizer Inc. to research, develop, manufacture, and commercialize products containing Pfizer's inhibitors of FAK for therapeutic, diagnostic, and prophylactic uses in humans. In addition, it has a clinical collaboration agreement with Amgen, Inc. to evaluate the combination of Avutometinib with Amgen's KRAS-G12C inhibitor LUMAKRAS which in Phase 1/2 trial entitled RAMP 203; and a discovery and development collaboration with GenFleet Therapeutics to advance new programs targeting RAS pathway-driven cancers. Verastem, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.
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