StemCells Therapy

For those of you who follow this blog, you’ll imagine my surprise to wake up the morning to the following announcement from the FDA:
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FDA NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: August 6, 2010
Media Inquiries: Shelly Burgess, 301-796-4651, shelly.burgess@fda.hhs.gov
Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA

FDA Seeks Injunction Against Colorado Manufacturer of Cultured Cell Product
Violations of current good manufacturing practice and labeling requirements [...]

Listen to show #85 here!RegenMedToday_085_July2010.mp3[11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Thomas Starzl, MD, PhD. Dr. Starzl is a professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and an expert in organ transplantation. He is considered by most to be the ?Father of Modern Transplantation.? Dr. Starzl discusses the history of transplation as [...]

This is simple. You can give real money to regenerative medicine without it costing you a dime. JPMorgan Chase & Co’s Chase Community Giving program is giving away $5 million to the charities with the most votes. Your vote could mean money for regenerative medicine.
Don’t be silly. Just click here and [...]

Listen to show #84 here!RegenMedToday_084_June2010.mp3[11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]
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Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Mr. Peter DeComo. Mr. DeComo is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ALung Technologies, Inc., a company which develops respiratory assist technologies that are expected to provide a better alternative to traditional, invasive respiratory support. Mr. DeComo discusses the goal of [...]

Listen to show #83 here!RegenMedToday_083_June2010.mp3[11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Stephen Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD, who is Professor in the Department of Surgery, deputy director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Director of the Center for Pre-Clinical Tissue Engineering within the Institute, and Blair Jobe, MD, Associate Professor of surgery in the Heart, [...]

This may seem a little off-topic for those who don’t know me but for those of you who do, you’ll know this is a little mix of many of my primary loves – cell therapy/regenerative medicine, communications/public relations, social media, and all things internet/technology.
This is a reprint (with permission) of an article I was invited [...]

Listen to show #82 here!RegenMedToday_082_May2010.mp3[11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]
Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes W. P. Andrew Lee, MD.  Dr. Lee is chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and the director of the Hand Surgery Fellowship in the School of Medicine.   Dr. Lee discusses the successful hand transplants recently performed by him as [...]

Listen to show #79 here!RegenMedToday_079_Feb2010.mp3 [11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]
Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Johnny Huard, PhD. Dr. Huard is the Henry J. Mankin Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery Research, the director of the Stem Cell Research Center, and the deputy director for cellular therapy at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Huard discusses adult stem cell [...]

Listen to show #80 here!RegenMedToday_080_March2010.mp3 [11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]
Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Gregory Schultz, PhD. Dr. Schultz is Professor of Obstretrics and Gynecology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida. Dr. Schultz discusses his research on wound healing and the challenges presented by bacterial biofilms. He also explains his current joint study, [...]

Listen to show #81 here!RegenMedToday_81_April2010.mp3 [11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Sam Rothstein. Mr. Rothstein is a chemical engineering predoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Steven Little. He discusses the lab?s research on the mechanics of controlled release and mathematical model-driven methodology. He also discusses his plans for a new drug formulation company, ChroKnow [...]

Stewart Lyman of Lyman BioPharma Consulting posted a great article in today’s Xconomy summarizing some key points and links to more information about the rules governing the Therapeutic Discovery Project Credit which have now been released by the US Treasury Department. Today, a detailed fact sheet was released about the tax credit program [...]

While the US government prints money to shore up failing and broken business models which no one likes but are considered simply too big (not too important or significant or even useful) to fail, Google is making money and investing it in start ups who expect nothing less than to create “disruptive, even world-changing technologies”.
No [...]

Listen to show #81 here!RegenMedToday_81_April2010.mp3 [11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Sam Rothstein. Mr. Rothstein is a chemical engineering predoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Steven Little. He discusses the lab?s research on the mechanics of controlled release and mathematical model-driven methodology. He also discusses his plans for a new drug [...]

Listen to show #81 here!RegenMedToday_81_April2010.mp3 [11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Sam Rothstein. Mr. Rothstein is a chemical engineering predoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Steven Little. He discusses the lab?s research on the mechanics of controlled release and mathematical model-driven methodology. He also discusses his plans for a new drug formulation company, ChroKnow [...]

It has been a long-time coming. It has been hyped and scoffed, bet against and hoped for, but now none of that matters. It’s here. Dendreon has brought Provenge to market. Here, in the word’s of the FDA…
FDA NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: April 29, 2010
FDA Approves a Cellular Immunotherapy for [...]

I know I haven’t been a very good blogger for quite some time but I wanted to pass on a letter I just received from my friend James Price as a Charter member of the Canadian Stem Cell Foundation. They’re going for a Webby award. You don’t have to be Canadian to support [...]

Listen to show #80 here!RegenMedToday_080_March2010.mp3 [11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]
Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Gregory Schultz, PhD. Dr. Schultz is Professor of Obstretrics and Gynecology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida. Dr. Schultz discusses his research on wound healing and the challenges presented by bacterial biofilms. He also explains his [...]

Listen to show #80 here!RegenMedToday_080_March2010.mp3 [11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]
Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Gregory Schultz, PhD. Dr. Schultz is Professor of Obstretrics and Gynecology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida. Dr. Schultz discusses his research on wound healing and the challenges presented by bacterial biofilms. He also explains his [...]

It has been pointed out to me by legal counsel that the 25 July 2008 letter from the FDA to Regenerative Sciences, Inc regarding what FDA observed as apparent “violations” of FDA regulation by Regenexx, was not a “Warning Letter” as that term is officially defined but rather an “Untitled Letter” which has less or [...]

Listen to show #79 here!RegenMedToday_079_Feb2010.mp3 [11.0MB 00:28:22 80kbps]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Johnny Huard, PhD. Dr. Huard is the Henry J. Mankin Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery Research, the director of the Stem Cell Research Center, and the deputy director for cellular therapy at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Huard discusses adult stem [...]