SC Launch Company KIYATEC Launches Four New Products
December 13, 2011
COLUMBIA, SC – December 12, 2011 – SCRA Technology Ventures program, SC Launch, recently announced that Portfolio Company KIYATEC has launched four new products in conjunction with life sciencecompanies New Brunswick Scientific, Biomerix, and 3D Biotek. The newproducts, 3DKUBE™ – Fibra-Cel® Disk Preloads, 3DKUBE™ – Biomerix 3DScaffold™ Preloads and two versions of 3DKUBE™ – 3D Insert™ Preloads arehigh value, high impact offerings which dramatically advance researchcapabilities in 3D cell culture. These new products will allow 3D cellculture researchers to “just add cells” via perfusion seeding into thepartner company’s highly standardized scaffolds inside KIYATEC’s 3DKUBE3D Cell Culture Plasticware.
The preloaded products allow for a combination of universality, richfeatures and cost effectiveness in various laboratory applications.Sigma Life Sciences, a leading life science and high technology companywith $2.3 billion in sales of chemicals and laboratory equipment in2010, will distribute KIYATEC’s new 3D cell culture products, addingthem to their current list of KIYATEC offerings.
“These new products raise our technology platform to a whole newlevel – by complementing earlier products in which the customer suppliestheir own cell culture scaffold, the capability to also incorporatepreloaded scaffolds made by leading manufacturers further cements the3DKUBE as a standard method for 3D cell culture.” said KIYATEC CEO MattGevaert, Ph.D. “Allowing researchers and laboratories to convenientlyand efficiently perform experiments that are also tightly controlled andreproducible moves the field forward and brings us all closer to betterprediction of drug effects without animal research. We are also proudto be a South Carolina company and part of the SC Launch program; it isthrough their support that we find ourselves in the position toaccomplish this industry first achievement.”
“KIYATEC has made great strides since first joining the SC Launchprogram,” said SCRA Executive Vice President and SC Launch ExecutiveDirector Dave McNamara. “It was less than a year ago that SC Launchpresented an investment to this company and already they are makinggreat contributions to the Knowledge Economy of South Carolina. Wecongratulate KIYATEC on the successful launch of these products.”
Since its inception by SCRA in 2006, and with initial funding of $12million in SCRA earnings, SC Launch has supported and funded over 188companies in SC, helped draw 12 landing parties to the state, providedbusiness services to 230 early stage companies in SC through a powerfulResource Network and helped position emerging South Carolina companiesto secure more than $167 million in follow-on funding from angel,venture and other private capital sources. SC Launch has been recognizedregionally, nationally and internationally for leadership inentrepreneurial support and technology-based economic development.
“Our SC Launch program and the companies participating in thisprogram have brought dramatic economic results to our state,” said SCRACEO Bill Mahoney. “It has been an honor and pleasure to support thesepromising companies, such as KIYATEC, as they commercialize research,bring innovations for society’s benefit and improve our state’seconomy.”
About SCRA
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SCRA is an applied research company with over 28 years of experience indelivering technology solutions with high returns on investment tofederal and corporate clients. Our Applied R&D affiliate managesover 100 national and international programs worth over $1.5B incontract value, and our technology-based economic development affiliatehelps early-stage companies to commercialize innovations and createjobs. In support of our mission, SCRA builds and manages researchfacilities that include wet labs, secure rooms for sensitive work andadvanced high-tech manufacturing shops.
About KIYATEC
KIYATEC Inc. is a life sciences company commercializing advancedthree-dimensional (3D) cell culture plasticware and 3D cell-basedassays. 3DKUBE™ 3D Cell Culture Plasticware creates a universal systemoffering a standardized approach to 3D cell culture. It is the only 3Dcell culture platform that incorporates perfusion flow, accommodates allscaffold materials, allows in situ imaging, models biologicalcomplexity using multiple co-segregated culture chambers, and featuresthe cost-effective benefits of being a single-use disposable. KIYATEC’s3D cell-based assays leverage the advantages of the 3DKUBE™ to createhigh value, high impact cell culture that creates better in vitroprediction of complex biochemical responses in humans, with a focus onevaluation of drug toxicity and efficacy prior to use in human clinicaltrials.
Discover. Develop. Diagnose.™ KIYATEC 3D Cell Culture Delivers. For more information about KIYATEC, visit www.kiyatec.com.
