The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has published a new call in cell therapy technologies. The call is open to all orgnisations that is working on these technologies and lead or form a new innovation centre that focusing on cell therapy.
Cell therapy can be described as the process of introducing new cells into a tissue in order to treat a disease. This can be done in many different ways such as the transplantation of stem cells, transplantation of mature cells, The xenotransplantation of non-human cells, etc.
To be able to eligible for funding, the innovation centre needs to be based in the UK and support the development and commercialisation of cell therapies and advanced therapeutics, as well as the underpinning technologies for manufacturing, quality control, safety and efficacy challenges for these new treatments.
The Expression of Interest (EOI) forms will be available from 9th June 2011 and the deadline for submitting the forms is 16th June 2011.
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