Phase 1/2 study for autologous human CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells ex vivo transduced with pCCL-CTNS lentiviral vector for treatment of Cystinosis.
Cystinosis is a rare disease that primarily affects children and young adults, and leads to premature death, usually in early adulthood. Patients inherit defective copies of a gene called CTNS,…
Induction of Tolerance by Combinatorial Therapy w/ Donor Stem Cells and Expanded Recipient Treg cells in HLA-mismatched Kidney Transplant Recipients
Dr. Meyer, and his team at Stanford University, will use a combination of healthy donor stem cells and the patient's own regulatory T cells (Tregs), to train the patient's immune…
Cellular Immunotherapy for Induction of Immune Tolerance in HLA Matched Living Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients
Patients who receive kidney transplants must take life-long immunosuppressive drugs to prevent their immune system from rejecting the transplant. Over time, these drugs are toxic and can increase a patient's…
A Human Acellular Vessel in Patients Needing Renal Replacement Therapy: A Comparison with ePTFE Grafts as Conduits for Hemodialysis (HUMANITY)
Humacyte is using donor cells to create a bioengineered vein needed by people with end-stage kidney failure undergoing hemodialysis, the most common form of dialysis. In dialysis a person is connected…
Induction of Tolerance to Combined Kidney and Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplants from HLA Haplotype Matched Living Donors
Stanford scientists are working with kidney transplant patients to see if injecting blood stem cells and T cells (which play an important role in the immune system) from the kidney donor…
