Since the outbreak of the new type of coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) in December 2019, the scientific community has been working fervently to develop treatments to combat the disease. Globally, scientists are exploring every potential weapon to suppress the global threat. Approaches under investigation include vaccines, medications, combination therapies, and perhaps most interestingly, living therapies with promising cell types such as natural killer (NK) cells, stem cells and exosomes. [Read more…]
Mesoblast to Enroll 300 Patients in COVID-19 Trial of Stem Cell Therapy Remestemcel-L
Phase 2/3 Randomized Controlled Trial of Remestemcel-L in 300 Patients With COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Begins Enrollment
NEW YORK, April 30, 2020 — Mesoblast Limited (Nasdaq:MESO; ASX:MSB), global leader in cellular medicines for inflammatory diseases, today announced a Phase 2/3 randomized, placebo-controlled trial to rigorously confirm whether its allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell therapy remestemcel-L provides a survival benefit in moderate/severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to COVID-19 has commenced enrollment. [Read more…]
Stem Cells for Coronavirus: Could Cells Be The Cure?
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an emerging global pandemic that is threatening the viability of healthcare systems worldwide. The virus responsible for the disease is also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and abbreviated as SARS-CoV-2. The eruption started in China on December 29, 2019 and by March 2020 it was reported that it had spread to several countries across the world. [Read more…]
Aspire Health Science Announces Strategic Partnership with NeoProgen for Development and Manufacturing of NeoProgen’s cell-based therapy
ORLANDO, Florida, May 6th, 2020– Aspire Health Science, LLC (the “Company” or “Aspire”), an FDA registered GMP manufacturing facility specialized in the research, development, and manufacturing of cell-based therapies, is pleased to announce a collaboration with NeoProgen, Inc.
NeoProgen, a Baltimore-based company led by Medtech entrepreneur Bill Niland, is a preclinical stage therapeutics company specializing in the development of novel cellbased cardiac therapies for heart regeneration. Similar to Mr. Niland’s earlier venture with Harpoon Medical, NeoProgen has origins in research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. That is where Dr. Sunjay Kaushal, a leading pediatric cardiac surgeon, discovered that a specific kind of neonatal cardiac progenitor/ stem cells (nCPCs), obtained from discarded cardiac tissue biopsies, are extremely effective in regenerating muscle tissue in the heart. [Read more…]
Organicell Announces FDA Approval of IND Application for the Treatment of SARS Due to COVID-19
MIAMI, May 05, 2020 — Organicell Regenerative Medicine, Inc. (OTCBB:BPSR), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of regenerative therapies, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Investigational New Drug (IND) application for its lead product, Organicell Flow, for patients diagnosed with moderate to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) due to COVID-19 infection. [Read more…]
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