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1 hour ago, kim6288 said:On 12/24/2017 at 11:56 AM, golfpanther said:As stated in their press release, it's not only being used for burns but also a wide variety of skin issues.An easy guess would be it's at Johns Hopkins, given the founders connection to the university and that of their chief clinical officer. Outside of that, it's probably at prestigious burn and plastic surgery centers in the US. I think Swanson mentioned that there are 126 burn centers in America. I mean, you could technically just try calling all of them and find out.
Thank you ! yes maybe at John Hopkins! I just called there to find out
Nice! Let us know what you find out.
On 12/26/2017 at 2:23 PM, kim6288 said:On 12/24/2017 at 2:56 PM, golfpanther said:As stated in their press release, it's not only being used for burns but also a wide variety of skin issues.An easy guess would be it's at Johns Hopkins, given the founders connection to the university and that of their chief clinical officer. Outside of that, it's probably at prestigious burn and plastic surgery centers in the US. I think Swanson mentioned that there are 126 burn centers in America. I mean, you could technically just try calling all of them and find out.
Thank you ! yes maybe at John Hopkins! I just called there to find out
So did you call John Hopkins? If so what did they say?
How long until they start to show results? Few weeks or few months?
Anyway I'm planning to send them an email asking them if they also treat deep acne scars in extensive areas of the body instead of just burns. I can't wait for their derivative product that I already know is years away (and probably appropriate to only beingused for small scars in a small area like a cheek or chin ....so something that is not for me).
From their press releases it seems like they want to distribute the product in 2018 to only burn centers in the US (which are 120) and it's now being used in around 15 of them. So their full roll out distribution plan is only for burn centers.
So it seems like that for now they only want to use it for treating burns and wounds or otherwise they would also distribute it to private clinics, plastic surgeons and dermatologists.
Anyway two of the burn centers that is currentlybeing used are:
1)Tampa General HospitalTampa Bay Regional Burn Center(with surgeon David J Smith)
2)Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical CenterJohns Hopkins Burn Center
And very likely is also here:
- University of Utah HospitalBurn Center
Holy fuck, I found the page of that plastic surgeon in Florida that is doing SkinTE: David J Smith (he's also on PolarityTE board of advisors
http://health.usf.edu/doctors/plastic_surgery/providers/16175/Smith
In his list of procedures it's also listed scar revision and not only burn surgery. Check it out.
1 hour ago, SimpleMutton said:Holy fuck, I found the page of that plastic surgeon in Florida that is doing SkinTE: David J Smith (he's also on PolarityTE board of advisors
http://health.usf.edu/doctors/plastic_surgery/providers/16175/Smith
In his list of procedures it's also listed scar revision and not only burn surgery. Check it out.
where did he mention skinTe on his website ?
41 minutes ago, Anish004 said:1 hour ago, SimpleMutton said:Holy fuck, I found the page of that plastic surgeon in Florida that is doing SkinTE: David J Smith (he's also on PolarityTE board of advisors
http://health.usf.edu/doctors/plastic_surgery/providers/16175/Smith
In his list of procedures it's also listed scar revision and not only burn surgery. Check it out.
where did he mention skinTe on his website ?
On PolarityTE website is explicitly written his name and the Tampa General Hospital as the recipient of a SkinTE kit.
He's also on PolarityTE board od advisors and he specialize in burns and wounds.
He's for sure one of the surgeons that is using it
Anyway it doesn't matter, they're all concentrated on treating burns, I'm pretty sure nobody will use SkinTE for treating acne scars for a while. Hope to be wrong but that's what it looks like.
58 minutes ago, SimpleMutton said:On PolarityTE website is explicitly written his name and the Tampa General Hospital as the recipient of a SkinTE kit.
He's also on PolarityTE board od advisors and he specialize in burns and wounds.He's for sure one of the surgeons that is using it
Good work! I can't seem to find where it says on their site that Tampa General Hospital is a recipient of SkinTE. Can you send us the link?
Great thinking looking at their clinical board of advisors. All of these people are surgeons and specialize in either burns or plastic surgery. Some of them even have an aesthetic background. There are 14 people on that list on their website. It's likely that the centers they work at are the ones that received SkinTE along with a few others (some of the people work at the same center).
Did you try contacting David J. Smith Jr.? I doubt he could discuss results for various reasons (i.e. too early, confidentiality, PolarityTE being publicly traded etc.) but it might be worth reaching out to him. He could possibly discuss things like price, availability and what applications he's presently using it for.
9 minutes ago, golfpanther said:Good work! I can't seem to find where it says on their site that Tampa General Hospital is a recipient of SkinTE. Can you send us the link?Great thinking looking at their clinical board of advisors. All of these people are surgeons and specialize in either burns or plastic surgery. Some of them even have an aesthetic background. There are 14 people on that list on their website. It's likely that the centers they work at are the ones that received SkinTE along with a few others (some of the people work at the same center).
Did you try contacting David J. Smith Jr.? I doubt he could discuss results for various reasons (i.e. too early, confidentiality, PolarityTE being publicly traded etc.) but it might be worth reaching out to him. He could possibly discuss things like price, availability and what applications it's presently being used for.
In the invoice letter in the investor's presentation is mentioned his name and the address of Tampa, Florida and that is the only burn center hospital in the city of Tampa and that surgeon works there too so I'm pretty sure that is one of the hospital that is currently using SkinTE
I haven't contacted him, but I looked at his reviews and they describe him as a "know it all jerk" and condescending so I don't know how willing he's to reply to our answers.
The PolarityTE staff seems way more helpful
The surgeons in the board of advisors are likely to have SkinTE in their burn centers, maybe we should contact them in the future or find the one with the best reviews.
For obvious reasons I'm also quite sure SkinTE is also being used at University of Utah Health Care - Intermountain Burn Center since it's located in Salt Lake City where the headquarters of SkinTE is.
And of course at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimora.
As for the rest of the hospital, who knows....
Anyway I'm pretty sure that, as of now, they only use it for burn and serious surgical scars...they won't treat us
3 minutes ago, SimpleMutton said:In the invoice letter in the investor's presentation is mentioned his name and the address of Tampa, Florida and that is the only burn center hospital in the city of Tampa and that surgeon works there too so I'm pretty sure that is one of the hospital that is currently using SkinTEI haven't contacted him, but I looked at his reviews and they describe him as a "know it all jerk" and condescending so I don't know how willing he's to reply to our answers.
The PolarityTE staff seems way more helpfulThe surgeons in the board of advisors are likely to have SkinTE in their burn centers, maybe we should contact them in the future or find the one with the best reviews.
For obvious reasons I'm also quite sure SkinTE is also being used at University of Utah Health Care - Intermountain Burn Center since it's located in Salt Lake City where the headquarters of SkinTE is.
And of course at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimora.As for the rest of the hospital, who knows....
Anyway I'm pretty sure that, as of now, they only use it for burn and serious surgical scars...they won't treat us
Their press release makes it seem like it's being used for a wide variety of scars. I agree, burns and surgical scar revisions are likely where it's mostly being used, but I wouldn't be surprised if they try some more cosmetic applications. In fact, I'd be surprised if they didn't.
Utah will definitely get it because they partnered with them. And yes, I think it's highly likely that the advisory board members are getting the product as well.
I do agree that they'd be hesitant to use it on facial scars that aren't caused by a burn or major injury but you never know. I wonder how much control PolarityTE has at this point actually. They indicate that they're mostly going to play hands-off and let the surgeon and patient deem what is best.
3 minutes ago, golfpanther said:Their press release makes it seem like it's being used for a wide variety of scars. I agree, burns and surgical scar revisions are likely where it's mostly being used, but I wouldn't be surprised if they try some more cosmetic applications. In fact, I'd be surprised if they didn't.Utah will definitely get it because they partnered with them. And yes, I think it's highly likely that the advisory board members are getting the product as well.
I do agree that they'd be hesitant to use it on facial scars that aren't caused by a burn or major injury but you never know. I wonder how much control PolarityTE has at this point actually. They indicate that they're mostly going to play hands-off and let the surgeon and patient deem what is best.
Yes I'm sure they're utilizing it at the Utah Burn Center in Salt Lake City.....we should contact them
This is the director of the burn center at Utah Hospital:
https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0032877
He has very good reviews and I'm pretty sure he knows about SkinTE since PolarityTE is located there
Long, very detailed article about PolarityTE (the good and bad) here:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4115851-polarityte-comprehensive-look-bull-vs-bear-cases
This is the SkinTE patent application, interesting informations:
1 hour ago, SimpleMutton said:This is the SkinTE patent application, interesting informations:
As I stated on here via my conversation with Dr. Swanson of PolarityTE, this patent has been split into 5 separate patents for their technology and their in-house lawyer is working on getting them all approved. He used the phrase "prosecution stage" in regards to where the approval process is at. Namely, the patent office is working to determine if the patents are sufficiently unique and novel to warrant approval. This was straight from Swanson's mouth.
2 hours ago, SimpleMutton said:Long, very detailed article about PolarityTE (the good and bad) here:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4115851-polarityte-comprehensive-look-bull-vs-bear-cases
I'd be wary of stock analysis articles. That site also published on on December 7th that was very down on PolarityTE. It cited the fact that they weren't moving forward with trials and hadn't released info from the pre-clinical studies as major reasons.
I talked to Swanson less than a week later and he told me it was already on patients and explained why they hadn't released the pre-clinical results in full (they used that stage to optimize the product and not from a peer-reviewable standpoint so the data wasn't gathered in a tradition clinical trial way). And two days after that came the press release that it was on patients and 5 days later they announced they'd purchased the 200,000 sqft facility. Interestingly, the article's author stated they'd update it if more information became available and they never did. They also said they'd tried contacting PolarityTE but hadn't hurt back. I find this doubtful given that PolarityTE got back to me almost immediately.
Again, take those kinds of article with a grain of salt. They're aimed at investors looking to make a quick buck most of them time. They are dangerous though because they spread misinformation, which could hurt PolarityTE in the short term. In the end though, it's already on patients so all that will matter are the results.
So, in looking at the investor presentation on PolarityTE's site, you can see the university's where the clinical board of advisors work. These insitutions are a good bet to be the ones receiving SkinTE first (their limited release is 15 centers).
3. Rainbow Children's Hospital - Anand Kumar
4. Children's Hospital of New Orleans - Gerhard Mudinger
5. Rutgers New Jersey Medical School - Mark Granick
6. University of Tennessee - William Hickerson
7. University of South Florida - Martin C. Robson and David J. Smith Jr.
8. St. Luke's University Hospital - Wayne Saunders
9. Johns Hopkins University - Shannath Merbs, Trinity Blvalacqua, Stephen Milner and Anthony Tufaro
10. University of Maryland and R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center- Michael Grant
11. Massachusetts General Hospital - Michael Callahan
12. New York University - Rachel Bluebond-Langner
13. Harvard Medical School - Richard Swanson and Michael Callahan
14. Southern Illinois University - Michael w. Neumeister
That's fourteen and it's a good bet that the fifteenth one is Utah University because of Polarity's close connection to them. So there you all go. If anyone wants to take up the challenge and find out where SkinTE is, those are the names to start with.
4 hours ago, ScarRight said:I'm tempted to invest a small outlay on this company on the share market haha. It looks very interesting and it offers hope, especially for the young ones, that maybe in 10 years time this treatment could really be out there.
investing in a company that hasn't proved anything (in humans), yet is valued 400 millions $ is a risk, but if they really have a cure then it's not 10 years away.
Even if they'll only use it for burn in the first 2 years, by 2020 we should have it
1 minute ago, JohnRottenSkin said:oh yeah, old thing already. Thought that there is something new.
SkinTE looks very promising. Let's hope by 2020, they will have everything in place to rid us of acne scars. I could finally get rid of my facial dents and my scarred back caused by acne cysts, chicken pox and folliculitis.