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Humacyte to Provide Human Acellular Vessels™ (HAVs™) to Front-line Hospitals in Ukraine for Treatment of Vascular Trauma Injuries
-- First shipment of HAVs to six Ukrainian hospitals made today -- -- Product candidate to be used for civilian and military vascular trauma repair, the HAV’s
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[{"type":"text","content":"-- First shipment of HAVs to six Ukrainian hospitals made today -- -- Product candidate to be used for civilian and military vascular trauma repair, the HAV’s lead investigational indication -- DURHAM, N.C., May 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Humacyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: HUMA), a clinical-stage biotechnology platform company developing universally implantable bioengineered human tissue at commercial scale, today announced the launch of an initiative to provide Human Acellular Vessels (HAVs) to multiple hospitals in Ukraine for the treatment of wounded civilians and soldiers with vascular injury, with the first shipment of HAVs departing the U.S. today. HAVs are engineered, off-the-shelf replacement vessels being developed for vascular repair, reconstruction and replacement. Humacyte worked with the Office of International Programs within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as the Ukraine Ministry of Health to coordinate export and import of the investigational HAV for humanitarian use. Six hospitals in Ukraine, including in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities, will be the recipients of the initial shipment. Additional site requests are currently being processed. “This initiative began as a request from one Ukrainian surgeon who was familiar with the HAV. Quickly, requests grew from other surgeons and sites around Ukraine. We continue to receive requests from local surgeons for the product candidate and plan to coordinate shipments to additional hospital sites as soon as possible,” said Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Humacyte. “Humacyte is proud to contribute to the ongoing Ukraine medical relief and to support the patients and the brave medical providers on the ground during this humanitarian crisis. I’m immensely grateful to the Humacyte team for their tireless work seeing this through, as well as clinicians in Poland and the U.S. who have volunteered to assist in training Ukrainian physicians in the use of the HAV.” The HAV is being evaluated in a Phase 2/3 clinical trial in vascular trauma for use a vascular replacement to restore blood flow to a limb, when saphenous veins or synthetic grafts are not a good option. The HAV has received priority designation the treatment of vascular trauma by the U.S. Secretary of Defense. The HAV is an investigational product and has not been approved for sale by ...