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To: dr.praveen who wrote (8)	8/2/2006 5:36:40 PM
From: dr.praveen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 136

medgadget.com The Tengion Technology: Bladder Farming Tengion Inc., a King of Prussia, Pa. company, has announced the completion of $50 million of financing led by Bain Capital and Quaker BioVentures. The company, co-founded by Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, is in the business of growing new bladders, aka the autologous neo-bladder constructs, for patients with neurogenic bladders associated with spina bifida and spinal cord injuries. For now their technology is in the experimental stage.