Public Joint-Stock Company "Human Stem Cells Institute"

Public Joint-Stock Company 'Human Stem Cells Institute' operates as a biotech company primarily in Russia. The company engages in the drug discovery, research and development, and marketing of proprietary products and services in the field of regenerative medicine; bio-insurance; medical genetics, including reproductive genetics; gene therapy; and biopharmaceutics. It owns and operates Gemabank, a family cord blood stem cell bank in Russia and the CIS; and Reprobank, a reproductive cell and tissue bank for personal storage of reproductive cells and tissues, as well as a sperm/oocyte donation. The company also offers Neovasculgen, a gene-therapy drug for treatment of peripheral arterial disease, including critical limb ischemia; and SPRS-therapy (service for personal regeneration of skin), a set of personalized diagnostics and treatment procedures for repairing skin damages. In addition, it operates GENETICO, a medical genetics center and molecular diagnostic lab that provides a range of genetic analysis and counseling services for the early detection, prediction, and prophylactic treatment of genetic disorders, including reproductive system diseases; and provides preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening that includes testing of developing embryos for monogenic inherited diseases and chromosome abnormalities during an in vitro fertilization cycle. Further, the company offers non-invasive prenatal testing of fetal chromosome abnormalities; and develops Gemacell, a cell-based drug candidate for treatment of myocardial infarction. Additionally, it provides range of diagnostic services for identification of genetic predisposition to oncological diseases; and distributes cell processing equipment. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Moscow, Russia. Public Joint-Stock Company 'Human Stem Cells Institute' is a subsidiary of PJSC International Medical Center Processings and Kriokhraneniya of Biomaterialy.