Kuros Biosciences secures US patent for spinal fusion matrices

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted orthobiologics company Kuros Biosciences a patent March 18 for the use of parathyroid hormone containing matrices for spinal fusion. 

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Three things to know:

1. The company’s subsidiary Kuros Biosciences BV also secured a patent for developing an osteoinductive calcium phosphate, further bolstering its orthobiologics portfolio.

2. Kuros develops Fibrin-PTH, a natural fibrin-based healing matrix with an immobilized targeted bone growth factor. It is designed to apply onto and around an intervertebral body fusion device as a gel.

3. Fibrin-PTH is undergoing a Phase 2a clinical trial for single level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion procedures in patients with degenerative disc disease, with autograft as the comparator.

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