New center shows commitment to manufacture cell therapies in Israel on 'industrial scale'

3 January 2017
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US-headquartered regenerative medicine company BioTime (NYSE: BTX) has announced the foundation of a new cell therapy manufacturing facility in Israel.

Together with its majority-owned subsidiary Cell Cure Neurosciences, BioTime aims to employ up to 30 staff at the facility at the campus of the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem.

The site will be used to produce therapies based on pluripotent cell-based technologies, an area in which BioTime aims to be the leader for developing treatments for degenerative diseases.

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