Our Opinion
FibroBiologics Inc. is on the Cruelty Free Investing use of animals list because they conduct pre-clinical studies of their drugs on animals to assess a product’s safety profile.
Supporting Evidence:
The company stated in the following report that they exploit animals for product testing.
“We have completed two animal studies. Sixteen animals were used in the first pilot study (PMID 27853661)3 with the objective of determining the effects of intradiscal transplantation of neonatal human dermal fibroblasts, or nHDFs, on intravertebral disc, or IVD, degeneration by measuring disc height, magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, signal intensity, gene expression, and collagen immunostaining.” (Page 82) Read the full document
Company Description
FibroBiologics, Inc. operates as a cell therapy, regenerative medicine company. It is developing a pipeline of treatments and potential cures for chronic diseases using fibroblast cells and fibroblast-derived materials. It holds 150+ U.S. and internationally issued patents/patents pending across various clinical pathways, including disc degeneration, orthopedics, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, wound healing, reversing organ involution, and cancer. FibroBiologics, Inc. was incorporated in 2021 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Company Website: https://www.fibrobiologics.com