NantKwest announced FDA authorization of IND application for mesenchymal stem cell product for treatment of severe COVID-19 patients
On May 18, 2020, NantKwest announced it had received authorization from the FDA for an Investigational New Drug…
On May 18, 2020, NantKwest announced it had received authorization from the FDA for an Investigational New Drug…
On Apr. 30, 2020, Mesoblast announced a Phase 2/3 randomized, placebo-controlled trial to rigorously confirm whether its allogeneic…
On Apr. 24, 2020, Mesoblast announced an 83% survival in ventilator-dependent COVID-19 patients (10/12) with moderate/severe acute respiratory…
On Apr. 6, 2020, Mesoblast announced it had received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
On Mar. 27, 2020, in response to the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus in California and around…
On Mar. 17, 2020, Israel’s Health Ministry announced that it had approved a request by Pluristem Therapeutics to…
On Dec. 16, 2019, researchers at the National Eye Institute launched a clinical trial to test the safety…
On Oct. 1, 2019, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $3.5 million grant to Georgia Institute…
On Nov. 1, 2018, City of Hope, and its affiliate, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), announced a letter…
On Jul. 27, 2017, OHSU announced that Shoukhrat Mitalipov, an OHSU biologist, had successfully modified defective DNA in…
On Oct. 9, 2014, a landmark study led by Douglas Melton from Harvard University successfully generated functional, mature human…
On Mar. 13, 2014, the Alabama Institute of Medicine received $1 Million gift from an anonymous Birmingham resident…
On Mar. 5, 2014, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced the creation of the Center for Embryonic…
On Feb. 28, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Immunization Practices Advisory Committee…
On Dec. 1, 2013, researchers at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, led by Dr. John Dick, announced…
In 2013, Harvard Medical School researchers announced they had discovered that GDF-11 reverses cardiac hypertrophy, or thickening of…
On Oct. 29, 2010, The Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research…
On Jan. 27, 2010, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine announced they had succeeded in the…
In 2009, Dr. Andras Nagy reported the discovery of a new non-viral method of creating stem cells from…
On Aug. 3, 2009, Researchers at Stanford’s School of Medicine announced they had identified the first human bladder…
On Oct. 8, 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it had awarded the University of Georgia…
On Mar. 2, 2008, adult stem cells may provide an explanation for the cause of a Hutchinson-Gilford Progeris…
On Nov. 14, 2007, researchers at OHSU’s Oregon National Primate Research Center announced they had successfully derived embryonic…
On Oct. 8, 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Oliver Smithies from…
O Jun. 4, 2007, researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine announced they had illuminated the path…
On Jun 8, 2005, Dr. Andras Nagy at Mount Sinai Hospital announced Canada’s first human embryonic stem cell…
On Mar. 15, 2005, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) officials announced the formation of the Institute for…
In 2005, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was formally established following the passage of Proposition 71…
On Apr. 27, 2003, Stanford researchers found that Wnt genes, first discovered as critical genes in cancer, are…
In 2001, The J.P. McCarthy Cord Stem Cell Bank at the Karmanos Cancer Institute was founded as a…