Recent years have seen major advances in the clinical applications of iPSCs, with Cynata Therapeutics progressing the world’s first formal trial of an iPSC-derived cell therapeutic and demonstrating that CYP-001, its lead iPSC-derived mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) product candidate, met all safety and efficacy endpoints in its Phase 1 trial for GvHD.
With multiple physician-led iPSC studies also underway in Japan for applications ranging from Parkinson’s disease to heart disease, the iPSC market is poised to for burgeoning growth. There has also been dramatic progress with production and differentiation technologies related to iPSCs, as well as growing use of iPSCs within drug discovery, disease modelling, tissue engineering, and precision medicine. [Read more…]
