CLEVELAND, Sept. 21, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Athersys, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHX) announced today that MultiStem®, Athersys' multipotent adult progenitor stem cell therapy, has been granted orphan drug designation by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration for the prevention of graft vs. host disease (GvHD). GvHD is a common condition associated with a bone marrow transplant in which immune cells in the transplanted marrow recognize the transplant recipient as foreign and mount an immunologic attack.
