LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HemaCare Corporation (OTCBB: HEMA) today announced an agreement with Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) to provide cellular collection services in Los Angeles and Maine for their new autologous cellular immunotherapy, PROVENGE® (sipuleucel-T). This personalized medicine is Dendreon’s lead product and is the first autologous cellular immunotherapy specifically designed to engage patients’ own immune systems to treat cancer. HemaCare currently leverages its expertise in automated cell collection (apheresis) and processing of blood products to provide specialty collection services to Dendreon and other organizations conducting cell therapy research and clinical trials. This agreement with Dendreon is the first commercial cell therapy collection agreement for HemaCare.
