JP Kikos was at the Stem Cell Future Salon last Friday and send me the following links to more recent research successes and investment opportunities in that area:
Especially the fact that VCs and angels are partnering with the clinics around the world (Russia, England, China, Korea) to open up Stem Cell Clinics in the Caribbean (Bahamas, and Barbados etc). Locally the FDA just expanded the Aastrom's (ASTM) Phase II bone graft trials. And their Replicell technology fully automates the culturing and commercial-scale production of Tissue Repair Cells.
There is a lot more to this story than the fog of morality. The big story is the money and who is going to get control of the billions Americans spend on medical therapies. If Americans are currently flying to Korea and China to spend $20K per stem cell treatment, how difficult would it be to get them to spend a few weeks R&R in Cozumel for the same money? How long can the AMA continue to support the current polices?
Remember the current administration only has 3.5 years left...
Anyway here are a few of the links:
Aastrom's 8K filing with the SEC. Look at the bone graft Xrays.
http://secfilings.nasdaq.com/filingFrameset.asp?FileName =0000936392%2D05%2D0
00059%2Etxt&FilePath=%5C2005%5C03%5C15%5C&CoName=AASTROM +BIOSCIENCES+INC&For
mType=8%2DK&RcvdDate=3%2F15%2F2005&pdf=
This is the link about Dr Huang Hongyun's work in China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianfilms/china
Song Chang-hun,Kang Kyung-sun and Han Hoon's work in Korea
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200411/kt20041126175757 10440.htm
University of Pittsburgh results of Stem Cell trial on heart repair
http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/news/article.asp?qEmpID=87
Stem cells reverse Parkinson's in monkeys
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6783024/
And this story, which is over a year old, makes the entire morality debate irrelevant.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3786
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-697630,00.html German doctors use stem cells from FAT to regrow skull BONE.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6727466/
Finally someone from my home country :-) Great stuff.
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