Vericel is trying to grow by widening its reach with more sales staff, new training for surgeons, and potential new uses for its treatments in knee, ankle, and burn care—but it may take longer than expected for doctors and insurers to fully come on board. The big question is whether new trials and expanded manufacturing turn into steady growth, or just add costs and delays along the way.Read more
Vericel is pushing its cartilage and burn-care therapies into more surgeons and new uses, aiming to turn growing demand for regenerative treatments into steadier, longer-lasting growth. But the business leans heavily on a small set of products, and rising costs plus reimbursement and regulatory hurdles could quickly change the outlook.Read more
Vericel is leaning on a bigger sales push and a new production site to grow its cartilage repair therapy, while also building out its burn-care business to add a steadier second engine. The upside hinges on doctors keeping up adoption and insurers staying supportive, because any slowdown could quickly hit growth and profits.Read more
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Vericel Corporation, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the research, development, manufacture, and distribution of cellular therapies and specialty biologic products for sports medicine and severe burn care markets in North America. The company markets autologous cell therapy products comprising MACI, an autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane for the repair of symptomatic, and single or multiple full-thickness cartilage defects of the knee; Epicel, a permanent skin replacement humanitarian use device for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with deep-dermal or full-thickness burns; and NexoBrid, a biological orphan product for eschar removal in adults and pediatric patients with deep partial-thickness and/or full-thickness thermal burns. Vericel Corporation was formerly known as Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. and changed its name to Vericel Corporation in November 2014. The company was incorporated in 1989 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
