by Mark Curtis | May 22, 2014
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of April. Athersys provides disappointing interim results for its MultiStem® cell therapy in ulcerative colitis patients. Sernova continues to demonstrate safety and biocompatability of its Cell Pouch technology...
by Lisa Willemse | May 21, 2014
> I’m not an academic, but I’ve been to many scientific conferences and read many more papers over the past 10 years or so. I know how important data is in research. I also know how important it is in communications (where visits, likes or shares are...
by Stacey Johnson | May 16, 2014
. Last November, I wrote about CCRM’s new Regenerative Medicine Video Network and featured an original video with Dr. Stephen Minger, Chief Scientist, Cellular Sciences GE Healthcare Life Sciences in the UK. If you enjoyed his industry perspective and insights on...
by Mark Curtis | May 14, 2014
. Welcome to your RM deal review for the month of April. There were two notable acquisitions this past month. NeoStem entered into an agreement to acquire California Stem Cell, while Aastrom acquired Sanofi’s regenerative medicine business. Read on to find out more....
by Holly Wobma | May 13, 2014
> I think one of the most universally embraced ideas when people gather together and pontificate about how their relatives or colleagues turned out they way they did, is that ‘people are a product of their environment’. I’m not here to make a singular stand against...
by Lisa Willemse | May 9, 2014
> I said goodbye to a much beloved uncle this week. I suppose it’s inevitable that mortality, aging and how and when we share our feelings with those we love would be on my mind over the 16 hours of driving to and from the funeral. Also not surprising that...
by David Kent | May 6, 2014
> My last post introduced the large-scale publicly funded clinical trial called BAMI (the effect of intracoronary reinfusion of Bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells on all course mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction). That post focused on the role of the...
by Stacey Johnson | May 2, 2014
. May is the month that students learn whether they’ve been accepted into medical programs at Canadian universities. Good luck kids! Good luck parents! This infographic, on the evolution of medicine, comes courtesy of BestMedicalDegrees.com, an independent online...
by Mark Curtis | Apr 30, 2014
. Of all the formidable challenges that a biotechnology company will stumble upon in its quest to commercialize, perhaps there is none more frustrating than a failure to get a product reimbursed by payers. After years of navigating the gauntlet of risk that is...
by Lisa Willemse | Apr 25, 2014
> Julia Pon is a MD/PhD student at the University of British Columbia with an interest in blood cancer. Like many before her, she noticed that the kind of information that is shared with cancer patients is different than what medical students are taught about the...
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