Company Profile: Tengion

Abstract

Founded in 2005, Tengion is a clinical-stage organ regeneration company with products in urologic, vascular and renal regeneration based on its proprietary Autologous Organ Regeneration Platform™. Tengion uses biocompatible materials and a patient‘s own (autologous) cells to assemble neo-organs or neo-tissues that are designed to catalyze the body‘s innate ability to regenerate. Tengion is a fully-integrated organization, with scalable US and European manufacturing and distribution capabilities, experienced research, development, clinical and commercial teams, and significant intellectual property. The company‘s corporate headquarters and commercial manufacturing facility are in East Norriton, PA, USA, and its research offices, a development laboratory and a pilot manufacturing facility are located in Winston-Salem, NC, USA. Tengion‘s product candidates may ultimately address the most critical problems facing organ and tissue failure patients, enabling people to lead healthier lives without donor transplants or the side effects of related therapies.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

The author is an employee for Tengion. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

K Mattox and BJ Wagner, PhD, assisted in the production of the manuscript. No other writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.