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Biotech / Medical : ProMetic Life Sciences
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From: axial2/15/2017 5:04:56 AM
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2016 article — paid plasma collection in Canada

Blood money: Legislated out of Ontario, Canadian Plasma Resources courts controversy with Saskatoon clinic

'But as controversy rages over Canadian Plasma Resources and what it may do in the future with the plasma it collects in Saskatoon, another company is already distributing treatments made from compensated plasma donations at a clinic in Winnipeg.

For most of its 30-plus years, the clinic has focused on donors with the rare anti-D antibody, whose plasma can be used to make a treatment to prevent stillbirths among women with rhesus-negative blood.

But under the clinic’s new owner, the Laval, Que.-based pharmaceutical company ProMetic Life Sciences, it has been increasing collection of normal plasma with the goal of making a broader range of treatments.

Bill Bees, ProMetic’s vice-president of plasma technology, said he would like to see the Winnipeg clinic expand to 30 collection beds from 12 within five years. He would also like to open new centres — possibly in the U.S., given the political challenges in Canada.'

Jim


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