MatTek

About MatTek

MatTek Location PictureMatTek Corporation was founded in 1985 by two chemical engineering professors from MIT. In 1991 the company leveraged its core polymer surface modification technology into the emerging tissue engineering market.

MatTek Corporation is at the forefront of tissue engineering and is a world leader in the production of innovative 3D reconstructed human tissue models. Our skin, ocular, and respiratory tissue models are used in regulatory toxicology (OECD, EU guidelines) and address toxicology and efficacy concerns throughout the cosmetics, chemical, pharmaceutical and household product industries.

EpiDerm™, MatTek’s first 3D human cell based in vitro model, was introduced in 1993 and became an immediate technical and commercial success. MatTek revolutionized the market for human cell-based in vitro models by:

Reducing the cost of such models by 50-80%

Optimizing researchers’ results by introducing published QC standards (concurrent positive and negative controls), assuring a level of reproducibility acceptable to industry and regulators.

Increasing industry and regulator confidence in the performance of commercially available in vitro tissue models.

The creative use of non-animal (in vitro) testing was fueled by the powerful synergistic effect of lower (direct / indirect) costs and significantly improved product quality. MatTek dramatically reduced product cost and increased lab efficiency by consistently delivering high quality, reproducible, products. In turn, this has led to rapid acceptance and utilization of MatTek’s in vitro products by a wide array of major international corporations. The outstanding reproducibility of EpiDerm and EpiOcular, MatTek’s corneal tissue model, led directly to impressive results in international multi-laboratory pre-validation and validation studies.

Commercial companies are now empowered to achieve the desirable humane and sociopolitical goals of reducing the number animals used in research while simultaneously controlling costs and generating more relevant, species specific, reproducible data.

In 2012 MatTek expanded its global operations by opening MatTek In Vitro Life Science Laboratories a new, state of the art manufacturing and research facility in Bratislava, Slovakia.

MatTek’s human cell-derived tissue models are used throughout the United States and Canada, Europe, Japan, and Eastern Asia. Our record of scientific and technological innovation remains strong as we continue to develop and validate new in vitro assays and human tissue models. We invite you to use our products, services and technical solutions, which will afford your company new opportunities in obtaining faster, cost-effective, more reliable and relevant results compared to the traditional assays and 2D in vitro systems.

View our products.

EpiAirway™

EpiCorneal™

EpiDerm™

EpiDermFT™

EpiGingival™

EpiIntestinal™

EpiOcular™

EpiOral™

EpiVaginal™

MelanoDerm™

Melanoma

Psoriasis

Normal Human Epidermal Keratinocytes

Normal Human Melanocytes

Normal Human Dermal Fibroblasts

Normal Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells

Normal Human Bronchial Fibroblasts

Human Immune Cells

Normal Human Corneal Epithelial Cells

Multi-Well Plates

Glass Bottom Dishes

Chambered Cell Culture Slides

MatTek News

June 4, 2019

Upcoming MatTek Conferences in Europe

MatTek EU team members will be in attendance at multiple conferences in Europe this month as an exhibitor, presenter, and sponsor. Dr. Jan Markus and Dr. Silvia Letasiova will be giving lectures on MatTek’s EpiIntestinal and EpiDerm tissue models. MatTek… Read More

April 30, 2019

Meet MatTek in Chicago for SID 2019

Meet MatTek in Chicago for SID 2019

 Visit our booth and poster presentations  MatTek will be attending, exhibiting, and presenting at this year’s Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID) 2019 Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. The 77th annual meeting will take place at the Hilton Chicago in… Read More

March 7, 2019

Visit MatTek at the Society of Toxicology’s 58th Annual Meeting

Visit MatTek at the Society of Toxicology’s 58th Annual Meeting

MatTek will once again attend the Society of Toxicology annual meeting in Baltimore, MD, beginning March 10 and lasting through March 14, 2019. This year’s meeting will take place at the Baltimore Convention Center. The Society of Toxicology (SOT) has… Read More

January 15, 2019

MatTek now offering cultureware with nanopatterned technology from NanoSurface Biomedical

Ashland, MA, January 15, 2019 – MatTek Corporation announced today a new partnership with NanoSurface Biomedical to distribute their nanopatterned cell cultureware technology. The partnership between MatTek Corporation and NanoSurface Biomedical will expand the availability of innovative, human-relevant cell culture options… Read More

October 24, 2018

MatTek Names Alex Armento as President

Ashland, MA, Release: October 24, 2018. For Immediate Release MatTek Corporation today announced that the company’s board of directors has appointed Alex Armento as president effective immediately. At 34, Armento is the youngest leader in the company’s history. A native… Read More

MATTEK.

MatTek Corporation

200 Homer Ave

Ashland, MA 01721

MatTek In Vitro Life Science Laboratories

Mlynske Nivy 73

Bratislava 821 05 Slovak Republic