A tool for rapid development of clinical-grade protocols for dopaminergic neuronal differentiation of Parkinson’s Disease patient-derived iPSCs

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Research Objective Develop a tool that facilitates rapid, cost effective development of optimized GMP-grade hPSC differentiation into functional DA neurons and apply this device to a cohort of PD patient-derived…

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Microenvironment based optimization of retinal induction using CRISPR-CAS9 reporter pluripotent stem cells as an expandable source of retinal progenitors and photoreceptors.

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Research Objective To increase the efficiency of generating pure retinal progenitor cultures for use in transplantation and to probe general aspects of retinal development. Impact Our methods could increase the…

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Development of a low-cost, clinical-grade iPS maintenance medium for enabling stem cell therapy manufacturing

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Translational Candidate HiDef-B8, an iPS cell maintenance medium designed to reduce stem cell GMP manufacturing costs and risk. Area of Impact HiDef-B8 addresses scale-up manufacturing, by being lower-cost ($300/L) and…

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A high quality, accessible cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease produced in a scalable bioreactor system for 3D cell expansion and differentiation

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Translational Candidate Human pluripotent stem cell expanded and differentiated dopaminergic precursor cells to treat Parkinson’s Disease at high quantity and high quality Area of Impact This candidate uses a 3D…

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Treatment of Severe Aplastic Anemia by induction of mixed chimerism using CD4+ T cell depleted haploidentical donor stem cell transplant

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Therapeutic Candidate or Device COH-MC-17: A minimally manipulated half-match donor blood stem cell transplant with a low-toxic conditioning regimen of the transplant host Indication Older (>40 yrs) Severe Aplastic Anemia…

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