Dry vapor shippers help Liventa Bioscience deliver cell-based biologics

Strategic alliance with Cryoport for portable cold chain logistics allows longer shelf life for live tissue cells.

Liventa Bioscience (formerly AFcell Medical) and Cryoport, Inc. announced a major strategic alliance aimed at serving the many points of orthopedic care delivery with Liventa's cell-based, advanced biologics tissue forms. The exclusive agreement combines Cryoport's purpose-built cold chain logistics products for cell-based and advanced biologic tissue forms with Liventa Bioscience's distribution capability to "point-of-use" U.S.-based orthopedic care providers.

In 2013, approximately $230 million of cell-based biologic products for orthopedic uses were shipped to hospitals and other clinics using dry ice and hospital-based cryogenic freezers. Cryoport's Express® liquid nitrogen dry vapor shippers eliminate the need for dry ice shipping and hospital-based cryogenic freezers.

As a result of this alliance, Liventa will now be able to provide Cryoport Express Shippers and Cryoport's Logistics Management Platform (the Cryoportal™) to all advanced biologics suppliers within the orthopedic arena. This logistics system, coupled with the small portable cold chain containers, will enable Liventa to better serve small or mobile clinics, pharmacies, family practice, and orthopedic specialty care providers. Surgical centers and hospitals will also reportedly benefit from better logistics and the elimination of issues surrounding dry ice transport and storage.

Liventa's Chief Executive Officer, Robin Young, says, "After careful research, we concluded that Cryoport's logistics solutions, which include both shipping and information logistics, was by far the most advanced solution available for both our AmnioClear® cryopreserved tissue products and other cryopreserved cellular products. Cryoport's system opens up every corner of the orthopedic industry to advanced biologic tissue and cell forms."

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