Key Partnerships

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. has joined JCR Pharmaceutical Corporation to produce and market Prochymal in Japan, if and when it becomes commercially available.

Osiris also has also partnered with Genzyme Corporation to develop Prochymal as a medical countermeasure to nuclear terrorism and other radiological emergencies. The agreement provides for Genzyme to receive a royalty on sales of Prochymal, limited to those sales made under contract to U.S. or Allied Governmental Agencies for Emergency Preparedness.

Adult immune privileged mesenchymal stem cells for use in clinical trial patients unrelated to the donor:

Osiris was founded in 1992 to develop Dr. Arnold Caplan and his colleagues' innovative technology for isolating and expanding mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) derived from donated bone marrow for therapeutic drug products.