Objective
Cord blood is a widely recognized source of hematopoietic progenitor cells for human transplantation in pediatric and, to a lesser extent, also adult patients affected by different hematological disorders. The therapeutic perspectives of cord blood has been recently widened by the discovery that it contains pluripotent stem cells, capable to give rise, in vitro and in vivo, to other than hematopoietic cells. The present project is aimed at investigating the potential of cord blood stem cells for differentiation and tissue repair, with the final goal to develop novel technologies for pre-clinical testing of cord blood-derived cell therapy products.
Therefore, the main part of this project will be dedicated to set up and validate innovative technologies for the isolation, amplification and differentiation of pluripotent cells from cord blood, including immunological assays for the evaluation of their immunoreactivity and animal models of human diseases to test their safety and efficacy. Moreover, the presence of a SME in the Consortium is specifically aimed at translate the results obtained from the basic science into GMP procedures to be used in phase I/II clinical protocols.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences medical biotechnology cells technologies stem cells
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine transplantation
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Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2004-LIFESCIHEALTH-5
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Coordinator
MILAN
Italy
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