Celularity Expands Strategic Collaboration with United Therapeutics Corporation to COVID-19 Infection and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – Yahoo…

- The expanded strategic collaboration includes the use of Celularity's proprietary CYNK-001 for treatment of SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19 and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome WARREN, N.J., April 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Celularity Inc. ("Celularity" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage company developing allogeneic cellular therapies from human placentas, today announced the expansion of its existing collaborative license agreement with United Therapeutics Corporation's (Nasdaq: UTHR) wholly-owned subsidiary, Lung Biotechnology PBC, to include the treatment of COVID-19 and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

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Canadian Company STEMCELL Technologies Is an Essential Industry Partner for COVID-19 Research and Vaccine Development – Ottawa Citizen

About STEMCELL Technologies STEMCELL Technologies is Canadas largest biotechnology company, with over 1,500 employees and year-on-year growth of approximately 20% for the last 26 years. Based in Vancouver, STEMCELL supports life sciences research around the world with more than 2,500 specialized reagents, tools, and services

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New clinical trial launches to test efficacy of cell therapy for severe COVID-19 cases – News-Medical.Net

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Apr 11 2020 After a lightening round of proposals and reviews, an international team of scientists led by Dr. Camillo Ricordi was granted immediate FDA authorization for a 24-patient clinical trial to test the safety and exploratory efficacy of umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) to block the life-threatening lung inflammation that accompanies severe cases of COVID-19. We are very grateful to the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluations and Research, Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies for performing four rounds of reviews in a record time -- one week

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Autologous Stem Cell and Non-Stem Cell Based Therapies Market: Incredible Possibilities, Growth With Industry Study, Detailed Analysis And Forecast To…

The Autologous Stem Cell and Non-Stem Cell Based Therapies market research encompasses an exhaustive analysis of the market outlook, framework, and socio-economic impacts. The report covers the accurate investigation of the market size, share, product footprint, revenue, and progress rate

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Lung epithelium model being tested as a platform for COVID-19 research – Drug Target Review

The developers of the lung epithelium model plan to investigate whether SARS-CoV-2 can infect and replicate in the model to assess whether it could be used in the fight against COVID-19. A biotech company has announced they are testing whether their human lung epithelium model could be used as a platform for investigating SARS-CoV-2 infection and developing and evaluating potential antiviral strategies for COVID-19. Newcells Biotech based their lung epithelium organoid on human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) and have been developing the model for two years.

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