NOTE 1 – DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
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General
Orgenesis Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated in the state of Nevada on June 5, 2008, under the name Business Outsourcing Services, Inc. Effective August 31, 2011, the Company completed a merger with its subsidiary, Orgenesis Inc., a Nevada corporation which was incorporated solely to effect a change in its name. As a result, the Company changed its name from “Business Outsourcing Services, Inc.” to “Orgenesis Inc.” The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Orgenesis Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiaries MaSTherCell S.A (the “MaSTherCell”), its Belgian based subsidiary and a contract development manufacturing organization, or CDMO (see also note 3), specialized in cell therapy development for advanced medicinal products; Orgenesis SPRL (the “Belgian Subsidiary”), a Belgian based subsidiary which is engaged in development and manufacturing activities together with clinical development studies in Europe, and later on to be the Company’s center for activities in Europe; Orgenesis Maryland Inc. (the “U.S. Subsidiary”) a Maryland corporation, and Orgenesis Ltd. an Israeli corporation.
The Company is a regenerative therapy company with expertise and experience in cell therapy development and manufacturing.
The Company’s cell therapy technology derives from published work of Prof. Sarah Ferber, our Chief Science Officer and a researcher at Tel Hashomer Medical Research (“THM”), a leading medical hospital and research center in Israel, who established a proof of concept that demonstrates the capacity to induce a shift in the developmental fate of cells from the liver and transdifferentiating (converting) them into “pancreatic beta cell-like” insulin-producing cells. Its development activities with respect to cell-derived and related therapies, which are conducted through Orgenesis Ltd. (the “Israeli Subsidiary”), have, to date, been limited to laboratory and preclinical testing.
