Longeveron Inc. announced the launch of its contract development and manufacturing business at the Company?s 15,000 square feet state-of-the-art Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility. This facility contains 3,000 square feet of cleanroom space, including eight ISO 7 cleanrooms and ancillary areas, as well as 1,150 square feet of process development, quality control and warehousing space. The Company also announced the initiation of work under its first manufacturing services contract with Secretome Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing first-in-class therapeutics from neonatal mesenchymal stem cells (nMSC).

Longeveron is primarily focused on advancing development of its lead investigational therapeutic candidate, Lomecel-BTM, a proprietary, scalable, allogeneic cellular therapy, across multiple indications, including hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) (Phase 2 on-going), Alzheimer?s disease (Phase 2 completed), and Aging-related Frailty (Phase 2 completed).