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Lineage Cell Therapeutics Leveraging Dendritic Cell Therapy Program for COVID-19 Vaccine Development

May 8, 2020 By Cade Hildreth, Founder & President Leave a Comment

Grant Application Submitted to California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for Additional Funding

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American and TASE: LCTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel cell therapies for unmet medical needs, announced today that it has applied for grant funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to support the use of VAC, Lineage’s allogeneic dendritic cell therapy, toward the development of a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19. [Read more…]

MSCs, The Most Suitable Cells for COVID-19?

May 8, 2020 By Cade Hildreth, Founder & President 1 Comment

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

May 6, 2020 By Cade Hildreth, Founder & President 1 Comment

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?

May 6, 2020 By Cade Hildreth, Founder & President 1 Comment

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

May 6, 2020 By Cade Hildreth, Founder & President Leave a Comment

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…]