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MEMBER SINCE: 2014 | CATEGORY: Biotech |
Essential Pharmaceuticals provides : Ewing, N.J. | : Essential Pharmaceuticals supports the
LOCATIONSIGNIFICANCE
solutions to keep cells and organs healthy
preservation and growth of human systems—from the cell to the entire organ—
Ethrough expanding its research and product development.

ssential Pharmaceuticals LCC provides medical
researchers and manufacturers new tools to bring

performance, convenience, and control to enhance
the advancement of basic research and drug discov-

ery. From the cell to the entire organ, the company
looks to advance medical treatments and the research that creates

new treatments.
Established in 2006, Essential Pharmaceuticals’ story actu-

ally goes back to 2000 with the launch of Custodiol HTK organ
preservation solution. At that time, Allan Weber—now CEO of

Essential—had brought the product to Odyssey Pharmaceuticals

as part of the company’s new organ transplant line of business.
Custodiol rapidly grew into a signiicant, yet highly specialized,

business with its own sales team and marketing network.
This led to a new business—the “Ess” line of products:
In 2005, Odyssey’s parent company was in the process of being

acquired by the only company in the United States with a com- ■ Cell-Ess: a totally synthetic serum replacement used to
petitive product to Custodiol. Weber, then general manager for grow cells

Odyssey, saw the opportunity with the divestiture necessitated ■ Cryo-Ess: an animal-component- and DMSO-free
by government regulations and created Essential Pharmaceuti- cryopreservative to preserve cells indeinitely in a frozen state

cals, bringing the entire sales division with him.
■Clin-Ess: an animal-component-free medium that can pre-
Essential continued to grow Custodiol and even sought studies serve tissue samples for study and diagnostic testing at cold

for new indications at the Food and Drug Administration, which or frozen temperatures.
are ongoing. The company explored new medical treatments in

the area of transplant surgery, looking to capitalize on years of Essential plans to expand in the near term by adding employ-
support and learning with the surgeons and medical personnel. ees, increasing manufacturing and distribution capabilities,

Essential’s search into how to better preserve organs led it to start and continuing the development of new products in the ields of

looking at how to preserve the cells of the organs themselves.
surgery and medical research.

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