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Category Archives: Clinical Trials
Q Therapeutics’ and Invitrogen’s Symbiotic Relationship
Q Therapeutics, a cell therapy company focusing on neural applications, recently announced a $15M series B financing that included funding from multiple venture capital (VC) groups as well as biotech tools provider Invitrogen. Q’s lead product, Q-Cells™, is an allogeneic … Continue reading
The Developing Embyronic Stem Cell Clinical Landscape
ES cell biopsy from blastocyst. Continue reading
Posted in adult stem cell, Advanced Cell Technology, Athersys, Clinical Trials, Cytori, Embyonic Stem Cells, FDA, Geron, JNJ, Novocell, Osiris, Regenerative Medicine, spinal cord injury, stem cells
Tagged Clinical Trials, embryonic vs adult stem cell, embyryonic stem cell 2008, evolving clinical landscape, safety issues
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Cytori Announces Progress in Cardiac Regeneration Clinical Studies
Cytori Therapeutics announced that they have enrolled their first two patients in an acute myocardial infarction clinical trial using adipose-derived cells prepared using their Celution™ device. The Celution™ device is an automated, tissue processing unit that isolates cells from adipose … Continue reading
Tengion Pioneers Autologous Tissue Engineered Regenerative Medicine Products
You have to hand it to Tengion, they are trying to tackle one of the largest challenges I can think of: producing tissue engineered organs and tissues from a patients own cells in unrelated indications (bladder, blood vessel, and kidney). … Continue reading
Posted in autologous, Biomaterials, Bioprocessing, Clinical Trials, combination products, Company Profiles, JNJ, patient specific cell therapy, personalized medicine, Regenerative Medicine, Tengion, tissue engineered product, vascular regeneration
Tagged autologous therapies, company prifile, tissue engineering company
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Pervasis Advances Tissue Engineered Products for Vascular Health
Pervasis Therapeutics announced that they have raised $9.75M to further develop their allogenic tissue engineered endothelial cell (EC) product for vascular health indications. Their Vascugel product is comprised of ECs grown in 3D collagen sponges that are implanted externally on … Continue reading
Posted in Biomaterials, Bioprocessing, cell delivery, Clinical Trials, combination products, Company Profiles, Manufacturing, Pervasis, Regenerative Medicine, tissue engineered product, vascular regeneration
Tagged end stage renal disease, endothelial cells, ESRD, gelfoam, tissue engineering, vascular health
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Osiris Scores $225M DoD Contract for Acute Radiation Syndrome Treatment with Prochymal Adult Stem Cell Product
Osiris Therapeutics announced that they won a DoD contract worth up to $224.7 million for developing their adult mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-based therapeutic for treating acute radiation exposure. The contract allows for reimbursement of up to $24.7 million for continued … Continue reading
FDA Proactively Addresses Embryonic Stem Cell Safety Testing
The FDA has scheduled an April 10, 2008 meeting to “discuss scientific considerations for safety testing for cellular therapy products derived from human embryonic stem cells.” This meeting will be followed by another meeting on April 11 that will “discuss … Continue reading
Athersys’ Adult Stem Cell Product IND Approved for Acute MI Phase I Trial
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 … Continue reading
Osiris Releases 1 Year Data from Chrondrogen Trial
Osiris Therapeutics last week announced positive data that came out of their Phase I/II double blinded Chondrogen trial. They demonstrated statistically significant improvements in joint pain in patients with osteoarthritis, however this seems to be an about face compared to … Continue reading
CellCyte Issued Patent for Enhancing Cell Delivery to Cardiac Tissue
CellCyte Genetics Corporation recently announced that US Patent No 7,282,222 was issued, a patent which they have exclusive rights to. The press release states that the patent covers unique methods and compositions “to deliver and direct stem cells to target … Continue reading
Athersys’ adult allogeneic stem cell IND gets OK from FDA
On November 15, 2007, Athersys announced in a press release that they had received a letter from the FDA giving the green light to start a Phase I safety study of MultiStem, their adult, allogeneic stem cell product. Athersys will … Continue reading
Posted in adult stem cell, Athersys, Clinical Trials, FDA, MSCs, Osiris, Regenerative Medicine, stem cells
Tagged adult stem cells, Athersys, business model, stem cells clinical trials
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Geron publishes data suggesting that Embyonic Stem Cells may not need long term immunosuppression
An interesting study was published this week in the Journal of Neuroimmunology spurring a press release from Geron that stated “GERON’S HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM (ES) CELL-BASED THERAPEUTIC FOR SPINAL CORD INJURY EVADES DIRECT ATTACK BY THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM”. The … Continue reading