Pacira Biosciences Inc

About Pacira Biosciences

Pacira Biosciences, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of non-opioid pain management and regenerative health solutions to improve patients’ journeys along the neural pain pathway. The company is headquartered in Brisbane California, California and currently employs 829 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2011-02-03. The firm has three commercial-stage non-opioid treatments: EXPAREL (bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension), a long-acting local analgesic approved for infiltration, fascial plane block, and as an interscalene brachial plexus nerve block, an adductor canal nerve block, and a sciatic nerve block in the popliteal fossa for postsurgical pain management; ZILRETTA (triamcinolone acetonide extended-release injectable suspension), an extended-release, intra-articular injection indicated for the management of osteoarthritis knee pain, and iovera, a handheld device for delivering immediate, long-acting, drug-free pain control using precise, controlled doses of cold temperature to a targeted nerve. The firm is also advancing the development of PCRX-201, a locally administered gene therapy with the potential to treat largely prevalent diseases like osteoarthritis.