Wow, this is a big moment for the stem cell community. We officially crossed 300,000 stem cell publications released to PubMed.gov. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and NIH that comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature.[1] It is the largest and comprehensive global database that exists for scientific publications. [Read more…]
Celularity Accelerates Breakthrough Placental Discovery & Therapeutic Platform
New Biotechnology Company Accelerates the Delivery of Transformative Innovations in Treatments of Cancer, Inflammatory & Degenerative Diseases, and Functional Regeneration
WARREN, New Jersey, Aug. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Celularity, Inc., a newly formed biotechnology company, today announced its acceleration of cell and tissue regenerative therapies to address unmet medical needs in cancer and chronic and degenerative disease. Celularity completed their Series A financing with contributions from several biopharma companies, including Sorrento Therapeutics, United Therapeutics Corporation and Human Longevity, Inc., and entrepreneurial investors.
Celularity has been created through the contributions of extensive intellectual property, clinical-stage assets, basic and clinical research, and development expertise including:
- Several clinical-stage immuno-oncology and regenerative medicine assets and a pipeline of pre-clinical assets
- Proprietary allogeneic (“readily accessible”) immunotherapy platform
- 200+ issued and pending patents in cell therapy; robust IP for placental stem cells
- Broad fully human antibody-CAR constructs
- IND-ready joint CD38 immuno-oncology programs
- Commercial-stage functional regeneration products Biovance® and Interfyl®* and pipeline assets
- LifeBankUSA stem cell biorepository with two decades operating expertise
Founded on the pioneering work of Robert Hariri, MD, PhD, in human placenta-derived cellular therapeutics and biomaterials, Celularity’s ability to procure placental stem cells, engineer potential therapies, and deploy potential treatments, positions it to harness the potential of the human placenta and operate along the entire value chain.
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Gamida Cell Transplants First Patient in Phase 1/2 Study of CordIn™ for Severe Aplastic Anemia and Hypoplastic MDS
This investigator initiated study is being conducted in collaboration with the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Jerusalem, Israel, August 21, 2017 — The first subject has been transplanted in an investigator-initiated study of Cordin™ for patients with severe aplastic anemia (AA) or hypoplastic myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) who have no available matched donor. CordIn™ is produced by Gamida Cell, a leader in cellular and immune therapies for the treatment of cancer and orphan genetic diseases. [Read more…]
Cord Blood Transplantation with Dr. Milano of Fred Hutchinson
I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Filippo Milano, Associate Director of Cord Blood Transplantation at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre about cord blood transplantation. In this interview, Dr. Milano speaks about trends in cord blood transplantation (CBT) that are affecting the global cord blood industry. [Read more…]
Should Stem Cells Be Regulated As Drugs?
Should stem cells be regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as drugs? This is a complex question and one that the FDA has continued to refine over the past several years.
FDA Regulation of Stem Cells
In the United States, cellular therapies are regulated by the FDA’s Office of Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies (OCTGT) within the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). [Read more…]
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