NORTH WEST EMBRYONIC STEM CELL CENTRE

Our research focusses on how human embryo develop and use of human embryonic stem cells (hESc) and induced pluripotent stem cells to understnd human development, for use in clinical cell-based therpy and for modeling human gnetic diseases. Human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can grow indefinitely in a dish while still retaining the ability to produce all the specialised cells in the body and hold great promise for cell therapy disease modeling and biopharma. 1) Work in our (HFEA-licenced) North West Embryonic Stem Cell Centre, in special clean culture rooms, concentrated on generating new hESc lines suitable for treating patients. We use these for a number of projects on human cell differention 2) Based on our novel highly efficient protocol to generate early stage chondrocytes from PSCs, we are working towards a new therapy for cartilage disease (e.g.osteoarthritis) employing PSC-derived chondrocytes and utilising our (HTA and MHRA licenced) clean rooms. 3) We investigate molecules in..

Primary location: United Kingdom