Potential Advantages
There are significant limitations to the current therapies for treating a range of tissue and organ abnormalities, and there is a clear need for approaches that are safer, more effective and cost-efficient.
Tengion's technology has the potential to offer several major advantages over current best practice. Tengion neo-organs and tissues have the potential, once approved and commercially available, to:
- Regenerate native-like tissue and restore function and structure
- Reduce healthcare costs for organ failure while improving medical outcomes
- Avoid the risk of organ rejection
- Eliminate the burden and costs of immunosuppression
- Provide meaningful clinical safety and efficacy advances versus existing alternatives
- Reduce or eliminate other adverse effects of existing procedures
- Shorten surgical and recovery time
- Improve quality of life for patients and their families