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Rion, founded in Rochester in 2017, plans to build a new manufacturing facility in a 10,000-square-foot space in Building 103 on the Rochester Technology Campus by the end of 2024 or early in 2025.

Rochester-based Rion and Mayo Clinic recently won a $2.4 million U.S. Department of Defense grant to develop treatments for soldiers and veterans exposed to “airborne hazards in war zones.”

Rion, founded in 2017 by Mayo Clinic Drs. Andre Terzic and Atta Behfar with Scott Rosenow, is working with Rochester Area Economic Development, Inc., the city and the state to finance more space.

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- Alisa Lask to lead commercialization of the first off-the-shelf exosome therapeutic platform - Two active FDA registrations ...

We round up more than 60 founders of Minnesota-based startups who gained experience at a big company in town.

Mayo Clinic has launched a new biomanufacturing strategy that seeks to develop next-generation biotherapeutics that go beyond standard pharmaceuticals

Purified exosomal product accelerates wound healing in preclinical models Difficult-to-treat, chronic wounds in preclinical models healed with normal scar-free skin after treatment with an acellular product discovered at Mayo Clinic. Derived from platelets, the purified exosomal product, known as PEP, was used to deliver healing messages into cells of preclinical animal models of ischemic wounds. The Mayo Clinic research team documented restoration of skin integrity, hair follicles, sweat gland...

 E-Mail ROCHESTER, Minn. -- All too often, patients with high levels of antibodies face major challenges getting a transplant. These highly sensitized patients have a much higher risk of death while waiting for suitable organs they are less likely to reject. But there is new hope for highly sensitized patients in need of a combined heart and liver transplant, thanks to an innovative surgical approach at Mayo Clinic. Traditionally, surgeons transplant the heart first, followed by the liver. But...