Cytori Therapeutics (CYTX) Gets Green Light from FDA to Initiate Cardiac Cell Therapy Trial
Cytori Therapeutics today announced it has received Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin the ATHENA trial to investigate the use of the company’s Celution® System. Cytori develops medical technologies to realize the potential of adult regenerative cells from fatty (adipose) tissue. The Celution® System is an innovative medical device to prepare adipose-derived stem and regenerative cells (ADRCs) to treat chronic myocardial ischemia (CMI), a form of coronary heart disease. The company sells its Celution® System family of medical devices in the European and Asian cosmetic and reconstructive surgery markets. Per today’s news,…