LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6, 2018 — California Cryobank, the world’s leading donor sperm and donor egg bank, announced today that it has been acquired by GI Partners, a private equity investment firm, from leading healthcare investors Longitude Capital and NovaQuest Capital.
In a separate transaction, GI Partners has also completed its acquisition of Cord Blood Registry (CBR), the world’s largest stem cell collection and storage company, from AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAG). [Read more…]



San Diego, CA, USA, August 1st, 2018 – Steminent Biotherapeutics Inc. (“Steminent” or “Company”) a private, clinical-stage cell-therapy company with offices in Taiwan, San Diego and Shanghai, is pleased to announce that the Clinical Trial Notification (“CTN”), submitted by their Japan partner; ReproCELL, to the Japan Pharmaceuticals and Medical Device Agency (“PMDA”) for a Stemchymal® SCA Phase II clinical trial for Polyglutamine Spinocerebellar Ataxia (“PolyQ SCA”) has been approved. This is another key milestone for Steminent’s international Stemchymal® SCA Phase II clinical development program with trials now moving ahead in Taiwan, US, and Japan. 
SEATTLE, Aug. 06, 2018 — Nohla Therapeutics, a leading developer of universal, off-the-shelf cell therapies for patients with hematologic malignancies and other critical diseases, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to dilanubicel (NLA101) for patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies receiving an allogeneic cord blood transplant. Dilanubicel has already received PRIME designation from the European Medicines Agency, and Orphan Drug Designation from the FDA and European Commission. 
Melbourne, Australia; 31 July 2018: Australian stem cell and regenerative medicine company,