First Patients With Macular Degeneration and Stargardt’s Disease Receive Stem Cell Treatment
July 21, 2011
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Advanced Cell Technology announced the dosing of the first patients in each of its two Phase 1/2 clinical trials for Stargardt’s macular dystrophy and dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD) using retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). The patients were treated Tuesday (July 12) by Steven Schwartz, M.D., Ahmanson Professor of Ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and retina division chief at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute.
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