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Sabrina Cohen Foundation Thanks Stem Cell Researchers

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I'm proud to use every available resource at our disposal, including this blog, to highlight the efforts of the charity we support - especially during this holiday season.  


I would be so delighted to have you join me in supporting Sabrina Cohen and her efforts.  You can start by buying next year's calendar!



The Sabrina Cohen Foundation
The Sabrina Cohen Foundation for Stem Cell Research (SCF) is an internationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to building a global network of top scientists and clinicians in the field of Regenerative Medicine, while simultaneously funding cutting edge research and innovative therapies that will reverse spinal cord injury and effectively treat other impairments of the Central Nervous System.


The ‘CELLebrity’ Doctors Calendar
The 2012 CELLebrity Doctors calendar is now available for purchase from http://www.CELLebrityDocsCalendar.com.  All proceeds from calendar sales benefit the Sabrina Cohen Foundation for Stem Cell Research, a 501c3 non-profit organization directly funding stem cell clinical research.   



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On the night of November 12, David Porosoff’s Artrageous Gallery hotspot was converted into something likely never imagined -- a hotbed of stem cell research.  Sabrina Cohen fused the vividly artistic backdrop and venue with gambling, cuban music, great food, and beautiful people all to further her mission of raising money and awareness for stem cell research.

Dr. Sally Temple with Sabrina Cohen

Dubbed the Havana Casino Night, the event had several highlights including the granting of the 2011 Sabrina Cohen Foundation award to stem cell researcher Dr. Sally Temple.  


Representing the 3rd recipient of the annual SCF award, Dr. Sally Temple is studying how neural progenitor cells may be employed to create cell-based therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.  Dr. Temple is the co-Founder and Scientific Director of the Neural Stem Cell Institute located in Rensselaer, NY.  NSCI is the first independent, non-profit stem cell research institute in the USA.


The night, sponsored in part by DMR, Evensky & Katz and Harke Clasby & Bushman, raised $10,000 which will be dedicated toward next year’s SCF Award for Stem Cell Research.  


The event also marked the lauch of the the Foundation’s 2012 CELLebrity Doctors Calendar, this year featuring women in the field of stem cell research.  The calendar features academics, industry executives, physicians, and advocates primarily from the United States but also representing Sweden, Australia and Canadian covergirl, Dr. Fiona Costello.


“In science you don't have to accept anything anyone tells you, you can come up with a hypothesis and test it yourself. And you can be the first one to do it,” says Dr. Costello, whose research focus is on multiple sclerolsis and other impairments of the central nervous system. 


“Stem cell science is often accused of being ‘hyped,” says Cohen, “but that doesn’t necessarily translate into monetary support for or society recognition of the enormous contributions made by stem cell resarchers.  They often toil in anonymity making significant discoveries at great personal sacrifice.  I consider it my job to find a way to financially support their work and bring profile to them as people.”  


The ‘CELLebrity’ Doctors Calendar
The 2012 CELLebrity Doctors calendar is now available for purchase from http://www.CELLebrityDocsCalendar.com.  All proceeds from calendar sales benefit the Sabrina Cohen Foundation for Stem Cell Research, a 501c3 non-profit organization directly funding stem cell clinical research.   


The Sabrina Cohen Foundation
The Sabrina Cohen Foundation for Stem Cell Research (SCF) is an internationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to building a global network of top scientists and clinicians in the field of Regenerative Medicine, while simultaneously funding cutting edge research and innovative therapies that will reverse spinal cord injury and effectively treat other impairments of the Central Nervous System.


Sabrina Cohen is the Executive Director and President of the foundation. She graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in Communications, double majoring in Advertising and Psychology, and holds a post-graduate degree in Copywriting from the Miami Ad School.  She is a C5 Quadriplegic, as the result of a spinal cord injury from a car accident in 1992. In 2006, she established SCF to raise funds for research because she believes the field of Regenerative Medicine will lead to the greatest advances of our time. Sabrina is a Motivational Speaker & Spokesperson continuously speaking in schools, universities and community centers. She has spoken at scientific conferences around the country, including the "World Stem Cell Summit" at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, Stanford University, Baylor College of Medicine at the University of Texas, and at the United Nations. Sabrina believes her wheelchair is a vehicle to promote change.  


Sabrina Cohen was recognized by WebMD Magazine as a 2009 "American Health Hero”.  Sabrina is currently available for interviews highlighting the 2012 “CELLebrity” Doctors Calendar.



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Commercializing Cell-based Regenerative Medicines

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When introducing a regenerative medicine cell based product to a commercial setting, there are a host of things to take into consideration to ensure a commercially viable and safe product for patient use.

In this QandA interview by Pharma IQ, William Fodor, Director of Translational Sciences, Cell Therapy Group, gives some teasers into a few of issues to keep in mind relative to commercial manufacturing scale?up of cell therapies.

Listen to the podcast here (registration required) or read the transcript below:

Pharma IQ:  Can you give some advice on the best way for a company to develop standards for
commercialization to improve safety?

William Fodor:  Well, with any biological product, you have to do all the appropriate testing and there’s really no standards necessarily to be developed by the company because the regulatory process is pretty well outlined by the FDA and the CBER Division and cell therapy products are regulated by the office of Cell Tissue and Gene Therapy Division.  So, it’s not that you need to develop standards for  commercialization to improve safety.  You need to follow the regulations involved by demonstrating to the FDA that your product is safe, and maintains the identity, in other words, your product doesn’t change during your regular manufacturing process.  Purity and then potency are all assays that need to be developed within the manufacturing process for your particular cellular product.


Pharma IQ:  And what are some approval processes and pitfalls to be aware of within the
scale?up process?

William Fodor:  So as you are scaling up, you absolutely need to maintain current good
manufacturing practices ? it’s known as cGMPs.  Typically, during a phase one, you can get
away with certain reagents that may not be fully GMPs.  Or in other words, if you use a growth
factor or a certain media that doesn’t have or isn’t manufactured under full GMPs,  as long as you test that particular reagent or media that you are using to ensure safety and sterility, you can typically get away with that in the phase one clinical trial process.  But when you move to a phase two, you need to make sure that all your reagents and medias and any compounds that come in contact with your product are all manufactured under good cGMP.

Pharma IQ:  What are some technology transfer and patent protection concerns to be
cognizant of?

William Fodor:  Well, with any cellular?based product, if there’s a technology that is out there
that a company wishes to pursue, to improve yield, or the manufacturing process, you need to
demonstrate that that technology fits within your manufacturing process.  So typically, what is
done is you’ll do validation runs to ensure that that new technology satisfies the regulatory
process for your manufactured product. With respect to patent protection, again, that company needs to maintain their IP portfolio and needs to make sure that they’re not infringing other intellectual property and that’s just standard for the industry.

Pharma IQ:  And do you have any tips for ensuring quality and consistency no matter how little
or how much one is producing?

William Fodor:  Yes, when you manufacture a cell?based product, it’s not that much different than any other biologic product.  And so, whenever you do manufacture, whatever scale it is, you have to ensure safety, and that’s sterility, tests for microplasma, or other adventitious agents; things like bioburden and endotoxins, so all those tests need to be performed. You need to have an identity test to make sure that your cell product ,whatever scale your manufacturing is, that at the end of that manufacturing run, the product hasn’t changed.   Again, no matter what scale you’re at, you need to make sure the identity of the product is
consistent from batch to batch.

For identity, you can do a number of things, and again, for a cell?based product, if you want to look at cell surface antigens to ensure that the cell surface proteins on your cellular product don’t change over time or through your manufacturing process.  And typically, what you like to do is keep it relatively simple.  You don’t want to test for a hundred things because you’re just asking for the potential for something within those hundred things to change.  So typically, what you do is maybe three to four cell surface antigens to ensure your product identity is consistent and you can also do PCR to determine that an intracellular protein of interest doesn’t change during your manufacturing process.

You also need to ensure for purity, so you want to quantitate your active cell or your tissue type.  And then potency; you need to demonstrate the product has a consistent potency and the biological activity of that final product doesn’t change during the manufacturing process.   And then typically, what you do is you archive.  You archive samples from during your manufacturing process. You cryopreserve those so you can always go back to ensure that that a particular batch was consistent with other batches that were manufactured.
...

Join Dr. Fodor and other industry leaders in Philadelphia, December 12th and 13th 2011 for the IQPC Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine Summit.  For more information or to register, visit
http://www.regenerativemedicinesummit.com.

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Cell Therapy & Regenerative Medicine Domains Available

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Please pardon the crass commercial nature of this post.  I try to keep self-promotion to a minimum here but I'm looking to unload a number of domains I have the related to cell therapy and regenerative medicine and thought this might be the easiest way to get the word out.  Let me know if you are interested in any of the following: 


anticyte.com*
biocellutions.com***
.
cardiacregenerativemedicine.com* 
cardiacregenmed.com* 
cardiactissuerepair.com* 
.
cellexpertsolutions.com**
.
celltherapyalliance.com* 
celltherapyassays.com*** 
celltherapycellutions.com**** 
celltherapycompany.com**** 
celltherapyconsortium.com* 
celltherapydevelopment.com***
celltherapymanufacturing.com**** 
celltherapymarketing.com* 
celltherapypartner.com* 
celltherapypatents.com**** 
celltherapysolution.com*** 
celltherapystrategies.com*** 
celltherapysupport.com* 
celltheraytech.com** 
celltherapytechnologies.com*** 
celltherapyventures.com*** 
celltherapyworks.com***
.
cellutionstrategies.com*** 
.
commerciaizingcelltherapy.com** 
commercialisingcelltherapy.com* 
commercializingcelltherapies.com** 
commercialisingcelltherapies.com* 
.
cordbloodshipper.com*** 
cordbloodshipping.com*** 
.
developingcelltherapies.com* 
.
diagnostacell.com* 
diagnostacells.com* 
diagnosticstemcells.com** 
.
discoverystemcells.com** 
.
expertcellutions.com***
.
integratedcelltherapycellutions.com** 
integratedcelltherapysolutions.com**
.
ipsbiologics.com** 
ipsbiomedical.com**
ipsbioscience.com**
ipsbiosystems.com**
ipsbiotechnologies.com** 
ipslifesciences.com**
.
longtailbiomedical.com***
longtailtherapeutics.com*** 
longtailtherapies.com*** 
.
personalizedcelltherapy.com*** 
.
regenerativecellutions.com*** 
regenerativemedicinepatents.com****
.
stemostics.com** 
stemomics.com** 
stemonics.com*** 
.
stemcellcollect.com*** 
.
strategiccellutions.com** 
strategicell.com*** 
.
thecelltherapycompany.com****
.
totalcelltherapysolution.com***
totalcelltherapysolutions.com*** 


Funky ones: 
 cellenterprise.com* 
 cellsforce.com* 
 cellsinnovations.com* 
 cellsmarket.com* 
 cellspitch.com*
 cellsrep.com* 
 cellstech.com* 
 cellsventure.com*
 iregener8.com** 


I have others - some of which are variations of ones listed above (such as with "the" in front) and would be available - some of which I'm still wanting to hold.
 _____________________________ 


 * ~$1,500 
** ~$5,000 
*** ~$10,000
**** ~$20,000

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Cell Therapy & Regenerative Medicine Domains Available

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Please pardon the crass commercial nature of this post.  I try to keep self-promotion to a minimum here but I'm looking to unload a number of domains I have the related to cell therapy and regenerative medicine and thought this might be the easiest way to get the word out.  Let me know if you are interested in any of the following: 


anticyte.com*
biocellutions.com***
.
cardiacregenerativemedicine.com* 
cardiacregenmed.com* 
cardiactissuerepair.com* 
.
cellexpertsolutions.com**
.
celltherapyalliance.com* 
celltherapyassays.com*** 
celltherapycellutions.com**** 
celltherapycompany.com**** 
celltherapyconsortium.com* 
celltherapydevelopment.com***
celltherapymanufacturing.com**** 
celltherapymarketing.com* 
celltherapypartner.com* 
celltherapypatents.com**** 
celltherapysolution.com*** 
celltherapystrategies.com*** 
celltherapysupport.com* 
celltheraytech.com** 
celltherapytechnologies.com*** 
celltherapyventures.com*** 
celltherapyworks.com***
.
cellutionstrategies.com*** 
.
commerciaizingcelltherapy.com** 
commercialisingcelltherapy.com* 
commercializingcelltherapies.com** 
commercialisingcelltherapies.com* 
.
cordbloodshipper.com*** 
cordbloodshipping.com*** 
.
developingcelltherapies.com* 
.
diagnostacell.com* 
diagnostacells.com* 
diagnosticstemcells.com** 
.
discoverystemcells.com** 
.
expertcellutions.com***
.
integratedcelltherapycellutions.com** 
integratedcelltherapysolutions.com**
.
ipsbiologics.com** 
ipsbiomedical.com**
ipsbioscience.com**
ipsbiosystems.com**
ipsbiotechnologies.com** 
ipslifesciences.com**
.
longtailbiomedical.com***
longtailtherapeutics.com*** 
longtailtherapies.com*** 
.
personalizedcelltherapy.com*** 
.
regenerativecellutions.com*** 
regenerativemedicinepatents.com****
.
stemostics.com** 
stemomics.com** 
stemonics.com*** 
.
stemcellcollect.com*** 
.
strategiccellutions.com** 
strategicell.com*** 
.
thecelltherapycompany.com****
.
totalcelltherapysolution.com***
totalcelltherapysolutions.com*** 


Funky ones: 
 cellenterprise.com* 
 cellsforce.com* 
 cellsinnovations.com* 
 cellsmarket.com* 
 cellspitch.com*
 cellsrep.com* 
 cellstech.com* 
 cellsventure.com*
 iregener8.com** 


I have others - some of which are variations of ones listed above (such as with "the" in front) and would be available - some of which I'm still wanting to hold.
 _____________________________ 


 * ~$1,500 
** ~$5,000 
*** ~$10,000
**** ~$20,000

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Commercial-stage Cell Therapy Companies and Products

Below is sample list of companies with cell therapy products* on the market in Europe, USA, or Japan.

Company                                                    Product              
Advanced BioHealing (now part of Shire)       Dermagraft
Aliktra                                                       MySkin
Avita Medical                                             ReCell® Spray-On Skin
Bio-Tissue                                                 Prokera
Bio-Tissue                                                 AmioGraft
BioTissue Technologies                              BioSeed-C
BioTissue Technologies                              chondrotissue
Cytori                                                        Celution System
euroderm                                                   Epidex
euroderm                                                   EpiGraft
Fidia Farmaceuitici                                     Hyalograft 3D
Fidia Farmaceuitici                                     Laserskin
Fidia Farmaceuitici                                     Hyalograft C
J-TEC Epidermis                                       Japan Tissue Engineering Co.
J-TEC Cartilage                                         Japan Tissue Engineering Co.
J-TEC Corneal Epithelium                          Japan Tissue Engineering Co.
Nuvasive                                                    Osteocel Plus
Provenge                                                    Dendreon
Sanofi (previously Genzyme)                       Epicel
Sanofi (previously Genzyme)                       Carticel
TiGenix                                                      ChrondroCelect
Therakos                                                    Therakos Photopheresis

* This list does not purport to be exhaustive of all cell therapy products legally sold in these regions.  This list  does not include approved products in other highly-regulated jurisdictions, such as Australia, New Zealand, or Korea, for example.  This list also excludes those cell-based treatments provided as a hospital or clinic-based service such as stem cell transplantation (hospital) or Regenexx (Regeneration Sciences, Inc.).

For the purposes of this list, “cell therapy” is defined loosely as any product which has in it live cells when administered to the patient including tissue transplants and devices.

Note that some of these products may be subject to emerging regulatory restrictions under the EMA ATMP regulations which may result in them having to be pulled from the market by the end 2012 at the latest.

If you would like to suggest any revisions or additions to this list, please do so in the comment section below.

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Potential far-reaching implications of the ongoing fight over point-of-care autologous cell therapy

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