Cytosorbents Corp

NASDAQ:CTSO

CytoSorbents Corp. engages in the critical care immunotherapy, investigation, and commercialization of blood purification technology. The company is headquartered in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey and currently employs 221 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2005-06-17. The firm is engaged in the treatment of life-threatening conditions in the intensive care (ICU) and cardiac surgery using blood purification via its polymer adsorption technology. The firm's lead product, CytoSorb, is an extracorporeal cytokine absorber, designed to reduce the cytokine storm or cytokine release syndrome that could otherwise cause massive inflammation, organ failure and death in common critical illnesses such as sepsis, burn injury, trauma, lung injury, cytokine release syndrome due to cancer immunotherapy and pancreatitis. Its other products include animal-targeted VetResQ, DrugSorb-ATR and ECOS-300CY. The firm's product candidates under development includes CytoSorb XL, BetaSorb, ContrastSorb, DrugSorb, HemoDefend-RBC, HemoDefend-BGA, K+ontrol, and others consist of a cartridge containing adsorbent and porous polymer beads.