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Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Health Care
Industry
Biotechnology
Headquarters
United States of America US
Employees
184
IPO date
Sep 22, 2020

Humacyte develops and manufactures bioengineered human tissue for use in surgery and trauma care. Its main product is a laboratory-grown vessel made from human cells that can be used to replace or repair damaged blood vessels. The company is focused on giving doctors an off-the-shelf tissue option where the body needs a strong, living conduit rather than a synthetic tube.

The company sells these tissue products to hospitals and other medical providers, usually through the healthcare supply chain and, in some cases, through government or defense-related channels. Its money comes from product sales and from the regulatory and commercial adoption of its tissue platform in different medical uses. Because the product is a manufactured human tissue implant, its value comes from being ready when needed and designed to integrate with the body better than many standard synthetic alternatives.

Humacyte’s business sits between biotech, medical devices, and regenerative medicine. Instead of making drugs that are taken repeatedly, it is building a platform for living, transplantable tissue that can be used in procedures where surgeons need replacement vessels. That makes it different from many healthcare companies: it is trying to create a new category of implantable human tissue that can be produced at scale and sold like a medical product.

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Address
2525 East North Carolina Highway 54
Durham, North Carolina
United States of America

Business Segments

Vascular grafts

Humacyte develops and sells human tissue-based blood vessel products that surgeons can implant to replace or bypass damaged vessels and create access for dialysis.

Customers and revenue model

Platform development

Humacyte also uses its tissue-engineering platform to create new regenerative medicine products for other surgical and vascular uses.

Customers and revenue model

Management

Dr. Laura E. Niklason M.D., Ph.D.

Founder, President, CEO & Director

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Mr. Dale A. Sander

CFO, Chief Corporate Development Officer & Treasurer

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Dr. Heather Ledbetter Prichard Ph.D.

Chief Operating Officer

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Ms. Sabrina Osborne GPHR, SPHR

Chief People Officer

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Mr. William John Scheessele

Chief Commercial Officer

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Dr. Shamik J. Parikh M.D.

Chief Medical Officer

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Mr. Harold Alterson

Chief Quality Officer

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Dr. Yang Cao M.D., Ph.D.

Chief Regulatory Officer

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