Recent MatTek Press Releases

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• EpiDerm Skin Irritation Test (SIT) VIDEO - ECVAM-Validated, Peer-Reviewed, PubMed-Indexed VIDEO Technical Article Now Available
  
  
• EpiDerm’s Skin Irritation Test Fully Validated in European Union
  
  
• MatTek’s EpiDerm™ In Vitro Tissues Headed for Validation in Europe
  
  
• MatTek’s EpiVaginal™ Excels in Microbicide/HIV Research Study
  
  
• MatTek’s EpiVaginal™ Receives U.S. Patent for HIV/AIDS Research
  
  
• MatTek’s EpiAirway™ Succeeds as Intranasal Drug Research Tool
  
  
• MatTek Announces Breakthrough in Dendritic Cell Production Methodology
  
  
• Progress in Validating Alternative Skin Irritation Test Methods
  
  
• MatTek Corp. Expands Again
  
  
• MatTek Introduces Next Generation Tissue-Based High Throughput Drug Delivery / Discovery Assay
  
  

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About MatTek - MatTek Corp. is the world’s largest independent producer of in vitro human epithelial tissue equivalents. With over 15 YEARS of publicly available QC data and over 400 TECHNICAL REFERENCES supporting our claim of “Unsurpassed Long-Term Tissue Reproducibility”, MatTek human tissue equivalents are used in product development, claims substantiation (over 200 PATENT REFERENCES cite the use of MatTek tissues), safety assessment, and drug discovery/development in many industries including Cosmetics, Personal Care, Household Products, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech.

The current in vitro tissue product offering includes EpiAirway™, EpiDerm™, EpiDermFT™, EpiOcular™, EpiOral™, EpiVaginal™, and MelanoDerm™. MatTek's in vitro tissue models are used in numerous applications, from skin irritation assessment to transdermal drug delivery and ADME-Tox studies.

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