Highlights
- Data demonstrating the consistency of Cynata’s Cymerus™ MSCs has been presented at a leading Stem Cell Research Conference held in Melbourne.
- The study further validates the potential of Cymerus MSCs as an off-the-shelf cell therapy.
- The major findings of the study include:
- Cymerus™ MSCs exhibit less batch-to-batch heterogeneity (variability) than tissue-derived MSCs.
- Cymerus™ MSCs also exhibit significantly less variability within each batch.
Cynata Therapeutics (ASX:CYP), a clinical-stage cell therapeutics company, announced the conference presentation of data from a study on the consistency of Cymerus™ mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and MSCs derived from various tissue sources. Manufacturing consistency is an absolute requirement in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products, so these findings confirm an important competitive advantage of Cymerus MSCs compared with MSCs derived from donor tissues.
The study endorses the potential of Cymerus MSCs as an off-the-shelf cell therapy. It also offers a better insight into the sources of MSC variability to have more predictable clinical outcomes.
The data was presented at the Biennial Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research (ASSCR) and Australasian Gene and Cell Therapy Society (AGCTS) Scientific Meeting in Melbourne.
Below are the major findings of the study
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The study, carried out at Monash University by a team of scientists led by Associate Professor Jess Frith, compared the consistency of different batches of MSCs. It included Cymerus™ induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived MSCs and tissue-derived MSCs from adipose tissue, bone marrow and umbilical cord.
The next-generation single-cell sequencing technique was used to profile the gene expression of the different MSCs at the individual cell level.
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