SYSTEMIC BIO OPENS NEW LABORATORY FOR BIOPRINTED ORGAN-ON-A-CHIP R&D

Systemic Bio™, a 3D Systems company, recently announced the opening of its new headquarters for hydrogel scaffold manufacturing and organ-on-a-chip R&D to facilitate its mission to accelerate drug discovery and development. This state-of-the-art facility contains a cleanroom for bioprinted hydrogel production and is located in the TMC Innovation Factory Labs on the Texas Medical Center Campus in Houston. From this location, Systemic Bio’s engineers and scientists will continue the development and production of the company’s proprietary h-VIOS™ (human vascularized integrated organ systems) organ-on-a-chip platform.

h-VIOS is a versatile organ-on-a-chip platform that can recapitulate several organ and disease functions. Composed of vascularized hydrogel scaffolds, the h-VIOS platform enables the survival and function of human cells, both healthy and diseased, as well as the delivery of drugs to these cells in a more physiological manner. The establishment and further validation of these systems has the potential to significantly reduce both the high costs and extended times required for pharmaceutical companies to bring new drugs to market. The new center of excellence for scaffold manufacturing will enable sterile and quality-controlled production of h-VIOS chips and plates to be used by Systemic Bio’s pharmaceutical partners in drug testing.

Systemic Bio is working to establish multi-year partnerships with pharmaceutical companies that could lead to the discovery of promising new drugs using the h-VIOS platform. Beyond providing organ-on-a-chip test samples and services, Systemic Bio is also now partnering with biotechnology companies interested in leveraging its hydrogel manufacturing capability to produce scaffolds for their applications of interest.