Proteonomix, Inc.
We are a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics based upon the use of human cells and their derivatives with an initial focus on diabetes and cardiac diseases. Many of the currently incurable diseases associated with aging are caused by the degeneration of specific cell types in the body. These diseases include, but are not limited to, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and autoimmune conditions. Stem cell therapy provides much promise for the treatment of diseases previously regarded as incurable.
Our mission is to achieve a leadership position in life enhancement regenerative stem cell therapies, services, and products through a combination of first to market technologies, and innovative clinical trial strategies.
1. Through our operating subsidiary, National Stem Cell, we have developed a catalog of intellectual properties and patent applications. These technologies are designed to work together in a synergistic fashion. Our initial focus in stem cell therapeutics is to achieve a leadership position in:
- a. the development of identification biomarkers (a biomarker is a substance used as an indicator of a biological state which refers to the complete range of genes found in biological structure and processes of the living body, including the nervous system, the endocrine system, and our senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. It is a characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervention) cell derivatives, and cellular proteins.
- b. the development of stem cell therapies for disease and injury; and
- c. the performance of reproductive cell/tissue laboratory services.
We need to test these technologies and therapies before commercialization.
We have identified stem cells in the human pancreas and have applied for patents for cell surface markers (the molecules present on the surface of each cell which define the cell on what receptors are present - a technique often used to associate cells with certain immune functions) for these pancreatic stem cells as well as methods for their isolation. Based on the fact that these cells are autologous (from same person) rather than from a non-related donor, we anticipate that the cells that we are able to isolate will substantially reduce rejection when transplanted into the liver of the same diabetic patient. The company is performing further research in this area with the University of Miami.
2. Through National Stem Cell, we have developed a patent-pending container device for cryopreservation of stem cells (the process where cells are preserved by cooling to low sub-zero temperatures) that we believe will provide significant improvements in viable cell recovery and contaminant protection, both in freezing and thawing stem cells, than is found with cryostorage containers currently in use.
3. Multiple cosmetic products have been developed. The products are based on our patents describing our Secreted Matrix TM technology. These products are in production and their launch is scheduled for the beginning of 2010.
4.Laboratory services are provided by our wholly owned, accredited and operating reproductive cell/tissue banking service (sperm, ova, ovarian tissue, testicular tissue and embryos). It is anticipated that our laboratory services will provide advanced technologies and procedures for the collection, laboratory testing, bio-genetic typing, processing and cryogenic storage of stem cells from both umbilical cord and peripheral blood. Umbilical cord blood stem cells and reproductive cells are processed and banked for both allogeneic (transfer from one person to another) and autologous (derived from and used by the same individual) therapeutic transplantation for a variety of medical disorders, including leukemia and lymphoma with stem cells and infertility with sperm cells. We have developed and implemented a unique, effective and comprehensive strategy for the marketing of our services and products on a national and international scale for applications in stem cell therapeutics together with cell-tissue laboratory services.
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