Form D is an SEC filing form to be used to file a notice of an exempt offering of securities under Regulation D of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Commission rules require the notice to be filed by companies and funds that have sold securities without registration under the Securities Act of 1933 in an offering based on a claim of exemption under Rule 504, 505 or 506 of Regulation D or Section 4(6) of that statute. Commission rules further require the notice to be filed within 15 days after the first sale of securities in the offering. For this purpose, the date of first sale is the date on which the first investor is irrevocably contractually committed to invest. If the due date falls on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, it is moved to the next business day.
Privately held companies that raise capital are required to file a Form D with the SEC to declare exempt offering of securities. Many of these filings show investments in small, growing companies through venture capital and angel investors, as well as certain pooled investment funds.
Form D forms can be used to gain information and understand better competitors. The information in Form D is usually highly sensitive for ventures and start-ups and they prefer not to reveal it. If it was not the regulation, they will never release a news about their offerings. This is because the amount raised or planned could help competitors understand what the business is doing. Entrepreneurs usually want to keep their financing a secret so they can stay in stealth mode for longer.[1]
http://www.micua.org/news-headlines/1638-hopkins-professor-s-r-d-buoys-startup
Also, I did send a follow up email using the company's website. I let you know if I hear anything back.
Man, not that much activity in here lately. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing lmao!
A handful of people have come in the thread to express their irritation due to the fact this thread remains active. The natives are getting restless.
Other than that there's only so much to say.
i just imagine if hydrogel become reality by 2018 , and it's achieve " scar free healing " ohhh , may be i will run and dance naked in public from extreme happiness , " scars on face " punished me and others so deeply , i hope all this become real ...
Well, take for example hepatitis C virus, which is now curable for the first time in history thanks to a new drug developed by Gilead Sciences and approved by the FDA in 2013/2014. And it is especially good news for Egypt where the prevalence of that virus is the highest in the world (10% or 20% of Egypt's total population):
This article claims the drug has a 100% cure rate, it results in a complete eradication of the virus from the body after 3 or more months of treatment, and virtually has no side effect! Simple as that.
So you see, only a few years ago you could argue that there won't ever be a cure for hepatitis C, that a cure for hepatitis C is something that is 'too good to be true', far distant future and so on, but now the dream has finally become a reality, hepatitis C is a curable disease!
BTW, hepatitis C was first discovered in 1989, so it took scientists 24 years to develop a cure for it, the same is probably true for skin scarring, it would take 20-30 years for scientists to find a cure for it after the first research has begun, and the first serious scarless wound healing research has begun in the mid-1990s, it cannot happen overnight.
You're pretty much spot on Vladislav. If you read this recent article, they've identified the cell responsible for scarring, a cell called engrailed positive fibroblasts:
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-04-cell-responsible-scarring-skin-cancer-growth.html
The EPF cells are clearly responsible for the vast majority of scarring," said Longaker. Complete healing in the diphtheria-toxin-treated wounds required an additional six days compared to controls, but much of the repaired skin looked and appeared to function normally. In contrast, scarred skin is frequently less flexible and weaker than uninjured skin.
The researcher, Michael Longaker, says:
"I've been obsessed with scarring for 25 years, now we're bringing together the fields of wound healing and tumor development in remarkable new ways. It's incredibly exciting."
So you're on the money. This researcher has been working non-stop on scarring for the last 25 years, right in the middle of your 20-30 year margin. Most importantly, the researcher affirms that it's an exciting time.
The cure for young adults who have acne related scarring will be definitively hear by 2060. So I estimate many of us will be in our late 60s or 70s or a bit younger.
The problem is that the cure for sagging old skin and eradicating wrinkles and such that will be covering our acne scars by that time won't be available until 3100.
Humans born in 2060 will on average be living 110 years, so even they won't survive long enough to see a real cure. Ugh the future looks bleak for this.