Sentences with phrase «clinical promise»

But that specific type of neuron also has particular clinical promise because many psychiatric and neurological disorders involve an imbalance between excitation and inhibition, including epilepsy, schizophrenia and chronic pain.

That is the exciting clinical promise down the road.»

Oliceridine received «breakthrough therapy» status from the FDA, a designation aimed to help speed development of medicines that have shown evidence of clinical promise in treating serious or life - threatening conditions.

Ludovic Vallier, one of the paper's corresponding authors, said in a prepared statement: «Our work represents an important step towards delivering the clinical promises of stem cells.»

For many scientists, the clinical promise of stem cells has been dampened by very real concerns that the immune system will reject the transplanted cells before they could render any long - term benefit.

There are a small number of unscrupulous actors who have seized on the clinical promise of regenerative medicine, while exploiting the uncertainty, in order to make deceptive, and sometimes corrupt, assurances to patients based on unproven and, in some cases, dangerously dubious products.

In its 2016 Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation (Section3), the ISSCR outlines clinical standards, including the requirement of persuasive evidence of clinical promise, as well as the need for independent review and oversight as potential treatments move through clinical testing toward the market.

In this commentary, I will outline a number of hurdles that will need to be cleared if these cells are to fulfil their clinical promise, and suggest avenues that might facilitate these important endeavours.