The Regeneration Station

Athersys and their cardiac parter, Angiotech, announced today that they got the ok from the FDA to begin a Phase I clinical study using Athersys’ Multistem adult stem cell product in acute myocardial infarction (MI). This is the second IND approval for Athersys in just over a month (and a welcome Christmas present for [...]

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Organogenesis, one of the pioneering tissue engineering companies, is partnering with China’s National Tissue Engineering Center (NTEC) to bring Organogenesis’ regenerative therapies to the Chinese marketplace. NTEC is a Shanghai-based private company that is funded by the Chinese government, and it was launched by a Harvard/MIT-trained plastic surgeon, Dr. Yiling Cao. The two companies [...]

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