Accellta

The company was founded in 2012 by the Alfred Mann Institute at Technion (AMIT) on the basis of two decades of research at the Stem Cell Center in the Technion's Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. Amongst its shareholders are the Technion Fund, the AMIT and Horizons Ventures. Accellta specializes in innovative, high quality and cost-effective media and custom-made technologies for culturing and differentiation of human stem cells in unique 3D suspension culture systems, using bioreactors, with no animal products, no feeder cells or micro-carriers and serum-free. The company presently sells and markets several media formulations, through several agreements with major companies, as based on their proprietary patents. The potential uses of culturing and differentiation of very high quantities and densities of consistent, well-defined and homogeneous cell population are numerous, and include the development of cell-based medical therapies, research tools and methods, drug screening and development (as an alternative for animal-based assays), bio-fabrication and tissue engineering.