Therefore, numerous research activities address these issues in order to provide
beta cell replacement therapy to a broader cohort of patients with diabetes.
The goal was to generate functional beta - like cells from pancreatic alpha cells, which may be the ideal source for
beta cell replacement.
San Diego, May 22, 2017 — ViaCyte, Inc., a privately - held leading regenerative medicine company, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed the company's Investigational New Drug Application (IND) for the PEC - Direct ™ product candidate, a novel
islet cell replacement therapy in development as a potential cure for patients with type 1 diabetes who are at high risk for acute life - threatening complications.
«These events offer several venues and platforms to share the exciting progress ViaCyte is making in developing
novel cell replacement therapies for diabetes,» said Paul Laikind, PhD, President and CEO of ViaCyte.
JDRF and ViaCyte share a continuing commitment to realizing the potential of beta
cell replacement strategies to deliver insulin independence without immune suppression for people living with type 1 diabetes, and ultimately, at JDRF we hope this will move us forward in fulfilling our vision of a world without type 1 diabetes.»
Recognizing there is still a tremendous need for better diabetes treatments, ViaCyte remains dedicated to
developing cell replacement technologies as a way to significantly improve patients» lives.»
In 2017, ViaCyte, Inc. announced the allowance of clinical testing for its PEC -
Direct cell replacement product candidate for high - risk type 1 diabetes.
Our group is specifically working on improvement of islet isolation and transplantation protocols in clinical practice and the development of novel therapeutic options in the field of beta
cell replacement with a clear translational «bench to bedside» approach by linking experimental research with preclinical and clinical work:
Various cell types have been examined for use in RPE
cell replacement including immortalized cell lines, such as the human RPE cell line, ARPE19 [2], sheets of adult RPE [3], foetal RPE [4], RPE derived from human embryonic stem cells (HESC - RPE)[5]--[10] and many non-RPE cells lines [11]--[15].
This has potential applications for
cell replacement without the immunosuppression treatments that are required when cells are transferred between genetically different individuals.
The findings reveal that NG2 glia represent a promising target for
neuronal cell replacement strategies to treat traumatic brain injury.
The notion that metformin might promote neurogenesis and
brain cell replacement is a very attractive hypothesis.»
These patients have a particularly urgent unmet medical need and could benefit greatly
from cell replacement therapy.»
Although
traditional cell replacement remains a central goal in applied stem cell research, the derivation of patient - specific iPS cells might be equally useful for disease - related research.
Key results included: near equal numbers of autologous (46 %) and allogeneic (41 %) trials; many of the trials are in the later stages — Phase I (49 %), Phase II (40 %) or Phase III (10 %); and there are significantly larger numbers of transient cell therapies (50 %) as opposed to
permanent cell replacement (5 %).
Additionally, researchers found that Smed - beta - catenin - 1 plays a role in
ongoing cell replacement in planaria that have not been challenged to regenerate.
ViaCyte's VC - 01 ™ product candidate, a first - in -
class cell replacement therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes, is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1/2 trial called STEP ONE, or Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of VC - 01 Combination Product in Type One Diabetes.
Ultimately, we use all this information to establish innovative culture techniques for generating unlimited neural stem cell sources for the derivation of specific types of clinically relevant neuronal or glial cells, for their use in disease modelling and drug discovery platforms, and towards refining their efficacy for
future cell replacement - based therapy.
Understanding how heart muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes, change in space improves efforts for studying disease, screening drugs and
conducting cell replacement therapy for future space missions.
Our beta
cell replacement platform is unique among our peers, and we are continually creating improved methods of boosting and replacing beta cells, as well as imaging them in the body to encourage long - term survival.
The history of nuclear transfer and its potential relevance to
cell replacement exemplifies the principle, so often seen in many previous Lasker Awards.
The Toshiba six -
cell replacement battery currently costs $ 90, so it is not cheap, but shelling out the cash is better than buying a whole new tablet should the battery no longer hold a charge (which is bound to happen with tablets as it too often does with smartphones).
That implies that blood is leaking from its circulation or body somewhere or pooling in an organ such as the spleen (one cause of splenomegaly) and that your pet still has the capacity to produce new red
blood cell replacements.
Carried out troubleshooting and repair of damaged and broken scales and weighing equipment including electronic cable repair, weigh - bar and
load cell replacements and structural damage.
ViaCyte's PEC - EncapTM (also known as VC - 01TM) product candidate is the first pluripotent stem cell - derived
islet cell replacement therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes in clinical - stage development.
«You can manipulate stem cells and propagate them in a dish, but many recipients of
stem cell replacement therapies will be older individuals.
About ViaCyte ViaCyte is a privately - held regenerative medicine company developing
novel cell replacement therapies as potential long - term diabetes treatments to reduce the risk of hypoglycemia and diabetes - related complications.
In order to overcome the limited ability of the neurons of the adult nervous system to regenerate spontaneously,
cell replacement strategies employing embryonic tissue transplantation show attractive potential.
Our research goal is to understand the molecular and cellular events required for pancreatic β - cell regeneration, and apply this knowledge towards the development
of cell replacement therapies for diabetes.
STEP ONE is the first trial in the world investigating a stem cell - derived
beta cell replacement therapy for diabetes.
The company is the first to advance an encapsulated islet
cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes into clinical trials.
Moreover, by uncovering a hitherto unknown mechanism mediating neuronal differentiation, the study by Makeyev and co-authors should facilitate development of novel
cell replacement therapies for neurological and neurodegenerative diseases.
The isolation of human embryonic stem cells by James Thomson and his colleagues in 1998 now offers the prospect of similar advances for human systems and the promise of a new modality of medicine —
cell replacement therapy.
But for
cell replacement therapy to realize its potential, I anticipate that scientists must solve the developmental code, the set of rules that govern the formation of tissues, organs, and beings from the original single cell — the zygote.
Nevertheless, he thinks this sort of technology will be seen in the clinic before a treatment based on a stem
cell replacement for photoreceptors.
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