Taking lab-grown blood stem cell to the clinic

About the project: 

Following their world-first discovery for how to create blood stem cells in the lab that closely resemble those in the human body, this project will map the steps to take their stem cell derived blood stem cells towards a first in human clinical trial to demonstrate feasibility, safety and efficacy.

Lead researcher: A/ Professor Elizabeth Ng

Investigators: Prof Andrew Elefanty, Prof Ed Stanley, A/Prof Rachel Conyers, David Ritchie, Prof Megan Munsie, Louise Whiteley, Lea de Chiffre Skovgaard, Chantal van Litsenburg

Tissue of interest: Blood

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The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, is supported by a Novo Nordisk Foundation grant number NNF21CC0073729​​