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Stem cell therapy review of good news: UC Davis, Asterias, Cynata, Mesoblast, ViaCyte

August 27, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

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It’s a difficult, but very important road to conclusively prove that an investigational stem cell therapy is both safe and effective in order to get final approval FDA or equivalents in other countries. For this reason, it is beneficial to highlight even small, but positive steps forward including encouraging pre-clinical data. Today I’m doing a […]

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Cynata stem cell trial update: CEO Ross Macdonald interview

July 3, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

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Stem cell clinical trials have a certain gravitational pull for me as I’m always fascinated by them and since the new Cynata trial is moving forward, I recently did an interview their CEO, Dr. Ross A. Macdonald to find out more. PK: Cynata’s recently initiated clinical trial aims to treat GVHD as have other stem

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Brief update from Bob Lanza on Astellas stem cell program

May 28, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 25 Comments

Late in 2015, one of the pioneering stem cell and regenerative medicine biotechs, Ocata Therapeutics (fka as ACT or Advanced Cell Technology) was acquired by Astellas Pharma. At the time of purchase, Ocata had a number of areas of focus, but was most closely followed for its development of human embryonic stem cell-based retinal pigmented epithelial

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Mini-bios on finalists for Stem Cell Person of the Year

November 8, 2015 / Heather Main

By Heather Main I was a little ashamed of myself that I didn’t know who half of the finalists were in Paul Knoepfler’s Stem Cell Person of the Year Award. I decided to look into it and find out what (or who) I have missed…..Interestingly, 3 of the 7 listed here are not scientists but

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Horwitz Interview Zooms in on Allen Cell Institute: the GoogleMaps of Cells

January 9, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

One of the most exciting developments in the biomedical sciences in 2014 was the announcement of the new Allen Institute for Cell Science. This new institute, which will be focused on cell biology, received $100 million in funding from high-tech pioneer and philanthropist, Paul Allen. I am very curious about how the institute will tackle cell

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Positive Stem Cell Developments in 2014

December 24, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

A lot has happened in 2014 in the stem cell and regenerative medicine field and so much of it has been good news so let’s focus on the positive. These positive developments are often the result of many years of creative, hard work by amazing teams of researchers. Here is my top 10 list of

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WAFSF stem cell vision talks: Hinton, Tsukamoto, Klassen, Takahashi

November 18, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

Recently I was at the World Alliance Forum in San Francisco (WAFSF), a great meeting on stem cells and regenerative medicine. WAFSF had some excellent talks and I saw one session on the use of stem cells to treat vision impairment that was particularly striking. World Alliance Forum in San Francisco (WAFSF) This session’s all-star lineup included Drs. David

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Diverse Stem Cell Person of the Year 2014 Award Finalists

October 23, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 11 Comments

With more than 4,142 votes cast, the readers of this blog have chosen the top 12 finalists for the Stem Cell Person of the Year Award for 2014 from the 27 nominees. You can see the final vote tallies at left. The votes came from more than 50 countries with some interesting geographic patterns (I

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Stem Cell Person of the Year Award 2014 Voting: Who Will Be Finalists?

October 15, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

With one week left to vote to pick the top 12 finalists for the Stem Cell Person of the Year 2014 Award, we have more than 2,800 votes in so far. From the top 12 vote-getters, I will choose the winner. This is the third year of this award. I self-fund this award out of

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Stem Cell Person of the Year 2014 Award: Vote To Choose 12 Finalists

October 8, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Nominations have closed and we have more than two dozen nominations for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2014. It’s an exciting, diverse group including some news faces as well as nominees from years past as well. Happy Stem Cell Day! You can now vote for your choice for the top finalists in the poll

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